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This week’s podcast is a conversation with Griselda Pollock about her recent book, Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory. Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week’s programme I talk to film historian Gary D Rhodes about the birth of the American horror film. Gary’s book is a fascinating exploration of the first two… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This programme features an interview with Berkeley cultural historian Thomas Laqueur. We spoke recently about his latest book, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, a… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This programme is one from the archive, a conversation I had back in 2010 with doyenne of Spanish translators Edith Grossman in which she makes the case for taking translation… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This programme from the archive features a conversation I had back in 2010 with Robert Irwin about the extraordinary world of the camel. Robert is a true polymath: Arabist, historian,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk to James Serpell earlier this year about the new edition of his book, The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What can poetry learn from music? Not about surface lyricism, but at the deeper levels of form, of their relationship to time – Eliot writes in ‘Burnt Norton’: ‘Words move,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Last month, I spoke to existential psychotherapist Antonia Macaro about her new book, More than Happiness, which investigates ‘Buddhist and Stoic wisdom for a secular age’. Antonia writes in her… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week’s programme I’m talking to Christopher Lloyd about the crucial role drawing played in the art of Pablo Picasso. What follows is a lightly edited extract from our… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘What do we mean when we say an animal performs?’ My guests on this programme are Karen Raber, professor of English at the University of Mississippi, and Monica Mattfeld, assistant… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this interview, part of the Conversations with Translators series, I talk to David Bellos of Princeton University about his book on translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tony Crowley’s new Liverpool English Dictionary is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the rich variety of spoken and written language found in this country. I suspect that even… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“Remember that science is nothing more than a competition for status in a field of storytellers. You are doing what the system requires of you [in committing fraud], and, in… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“In Russian music you have a very different portrayal of Russia [from the one you find in literature], which has very strong rhythms, very festive images. It’s very bright, very… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I spoke recently to Greg Garrett, who is professor of English at Baylor University in Texas, where he teaches fiction and screenwriting, literature, film, popular culture, and theology. Greg’s latest… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The eighteenth century was when pet-keeping went mainstream. The first recognizable pet shops were set up, the first missing dog ads appeared in the newspapers. Over the course of the… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“The fear of bad magic lurks below the skin of Western society. At times it comes up above the surface.” In his new book, The Witch: A History of Fear… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
My guest on this week’s programme is Rosalyn LaPier who’s associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana and a research associate at the National Museum… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New School sociologist Rachel Sherman interviewed fifty affluent residents of New York (the most unequal city in the United States) to find out their attitudes to wealth. She writes of… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The ‘house’ in question was in Kensington Palace Gardens and, as far as its clandestine wartime function was concerned, did not officially exist. In 1940 four mansions were requisitioned to… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In Pat Shipman’s book, The Invaders (Harvard University Press), she argues that our last close relative, the Neanderthals, were driven to extinction not solely by climate change – though that… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The recent news story about robots developing their own private language claimed alarmed Facebook researchers had to pull the plug on their experiment. The story turned out to be not… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What do we know about the Earth’s ancient climate, and how do we know it? What can it tell us about its – and our – possible future? Leicester professor… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week’s programme is an interview with Fiona Stafford, in which we discuss humanity’s long, rich and complex relationship with trees. Fiona, who is a professor of English at Oxford,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I heard an interesting interview with Robert Ferguson on the New York Times Books podcast at the weekend in which he talked about his new book on Scandinavia (“an engaging,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Here is another freshly re-edited recording from my archive. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s biography of the first three decades of Dickens’ life, published by Harvard University Press, is a terrifically readable, refreshing… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘As soon as humans make images, they make them about humans and they make them about animals and the relationship between them.’ My guest on this programme from the archive… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“I’m interested in saying, look, how can you challenge the Asterix-and-the-Romans kind of image that we tend to have of Rome? We are determined to turn a blind eye to… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
My guest on this newly re-edited programme from the archive is Roger Luckhurst, who – as he puts it – teaches “horror and the occasional respectable novel by Henry James”… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
