“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
Mary Beard on the Roman triumph
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: Becoming Dickens
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Becoming Dickens from George Miller on Vimeo.
Roger Luckhurst on the mummy’s curse
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
Jeremy Mynott on birdscapes
Birding World called it “an absolutely fascinating book, exhaustively researched, beautifully written, both learned and humorous, and endlessly stimulating. . . . A book which informs and delights at first… Read More
Craig Stanford: The end of the apes?
“Evolutionary success is not a birthright nor is it a guarantor of survival in perpetuity. Natural selection wrought the living ape species, and like all animals their time on Earth… Read More
Chris Wickham on rethinking the Middle Ages
I recently met my guest on this programme – Chris Wickham – at All Souls College, Oxford where he is Emeritus Chichele Professor of Medieval History. We met to discuss… Read More
Rosamund Bartlett on translating Anna Karenina
“The text of Anna Karenina is like a Persian carpet of intricate symmetrical design, whose workmanship can only be appreciated by seeing the reverse side.” In the spring of 2015… Read More
Julian Baggini on the Edge of Reason
“We have lost our reason,” writes philosopher Julian Baggini in the introduction to his latest book, The Edge of Reason, “and our loss is no accident. Gradually, the contemporary West… Read More