Literature
Pause For Thought: 'We become what we think.' Pause For Thought. Audio, 00:01:50
Lalitavira reflects on a life-changing read.
- AttributionBBC Radio 2
- Posted3 March 2020
Pause For Thought: 'As I grieved for my father, I found him again in a book.' Pause For Thought. Audio, 00:02:00
Huma Qureshi on seeing ourselves in literature.
- AttributionBBC Radio 2
- Posted2 March 2020
The Essay. Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf, Margaret Oliphant. Audio, 14 minutes
The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf, Lady Mary Wroth. Audio, 14 minutes
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf, Charlotte Turner Smith. Audio, 14 minutes
The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Art of Apology, Episode 5. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Helen Mort reflects on when apology stands in for a sense of sorrow and guilt.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Art of Apology, Episode 4. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Helen Mort explores over-apologising through some of the poems that have shaped her.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Art of Apology, Episode 3. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Helen Mort explores whether apologies sometimes stand in for a failure to understand.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people. Audio, 39 minutes
Islam Issa hears how Adrian Lester and Ewan Fernie are taking Shakespeare to the people
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Art of Apology, Episode 2. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Helen Mort explores non-apology through some of the poems that have shaped her.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Art of Apology, Episode 1. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Helen Mort reflects that saying sorry is often not just about contrition.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted14 February 2020
Witness History. Diary of life in a favela. Audio, 9 minutes
A shocking account of the realities of the slums of São Paulo
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Audio, 9 minutes
The collected thoughts of China's communist leader that became an unexpected best-seller
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted8 February 2020
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- Posted7 February 2020
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- Posted7 February 2020
World Book Club. Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory. Audio, 50 minutes
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted1 February 2020
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- Posted28 January 2020
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- Posted23 January 2020
Great Lives. Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Audio, 28 minutes
Andi Oliver chooses the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
