Literature
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, John Patrick McHugh on Calypso. Audio, 14 minutes
Short story writer John Patrick McHugh chooses the fourth episode of Ulysses: Calypso.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted31 January 2022
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, Anne Enright on Telemachus. Audio, 14 minutes
Anne Enright gives us a close reading of the opening pages of James Joyce's Ulysses.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Art of a Day. Audio, 44 minutes
Why do writers and audiences keep coming back to one-day artworks like Joyce's Ulysses?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted28 January 2022
1922: The Birth of Now. Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago. Audio, 14 minutes
Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago in 1922 a move with profound influence
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted27 January 2022
1922: The Birth of Now. The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun. Audio, 14 minutes
The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun, China's first modernist work of literature
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
1922: The Birth of Now. The Criterion, which published The Waste Land. Audio, 14 minutes
The Criterion, in which the seminal modernist poem The Waste Land first appeared.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted21 January 2022
Sunday Feature. The Pigeons at the British Museum. Audio, 14 minutes
Will Abberley reconsiders Richard Jefferies's essay The Pigeons at the British Museum.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Deborah Levy, writer. Audio, 38 minutes
Deborah Levy, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted12 January 2022
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- Posted8 January 2022
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
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- 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
