Literature
Witness History. Marcel Proust. Audio, 9 minutes
The great French writer remembered by one of his friends and by his faithful maid.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 January 2022
- Attribution
- Posted29 December 2021
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- Posted28 December 2021
Jacqueline Wilson's Wonderful World. Video, 58 minutes
Special event celebrating children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson.
- AttributionCBBC
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Richard Osman, writer and broadcaster. Audio, 35 minutes
Richard Osman, broadcaster, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted23 December 2021
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- Posted16 December 2021
Sunday Feature. This Land of Words and Water. Audio, 44 minutes
A journey into the Ireland of Louis MacNeice’s poetic imagination.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Behind locked doors with Claire Keegan; Alan Cumming's book he would never lend. Audio, 28 minutes
Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted11 December 2021
The Essay. Another Northern Ireland, Chalk on the Wall. Audio, 14 minutes
Writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her hometown to find a radical history.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted5 December 2021
Sunday Feature. In Search of the Sublime. Audio, 44 minutes
In Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, artist Emma Stibbon RA explores the idea of the sublime.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted29 November 2021
Desert Island Discs. Neil Gaiman, writer. Audio, 35 minutes
Neil Gaiman, writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Romanian history and literature. Audio, 45 minutes
Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Afterwords: Mary Oliver. Audio, 44 minutes
A dive into the world of American writer Mary Oliver, with recordings of the poet herself.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted20 November 2021
The Strange Affair of... Frankenstein. Video, 30 minutes
Robert Symes investigates the background to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. (1986)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
The Bronte Business. Video, 25 minutes
Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes. (1977)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted17 November 2021
