Translator Laura Marris, my guest on this episode, had long wanted to translate Albert Camus’s The Plague, his novel about a fictional pestilence that afflicted the Algerian coastal city of… Read More
In this programme, we’re exploring the life and music of Francis Poulenc, in the company of writer and musicologist Roger Nichols. Yale University Press recently published Roger’s biography of the… Read More
This week we explore the life and work of the master of the 19th-century short story, Guy de Maupassant, in the company of his recent biographer Christopher Lloyd, who’s emeritus… Read More
A young man inherits a house on an island in the middle of the raging waters of a mighty river from his mysterious great-uncle Malicroix. But to satisfy the conditions… Read More
This week, we ask, are Britain and France still trapped in their own myth-making about their colonial pasts? My guest on the programme is Robert Gildea, who is professor of… Read More
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox explore four centuries in the afterlife of Joan of Arc. Our guest, Gail Orgelfinger, is a medievalist by training and a founding member… Read More
Bradley Stephens introduces Victor Hugo from George Miller on Vimeo.
My guest this week is Mark Polizzotti, author notably of a biography of surrealist André Breton; publisher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and acclaimed translator from French of books… Read More
This week we’re focusing on one of the nineteenth century’s most successful and influential writers, Victor Hugo. By the time of his death in 1885, Hugo was undoubtedly the most… Read More
A few weeks ago, I put up an interview with Anne O’Neill-Henry about her book Mastering the Marketplace, which examines the dawn of the era of the bestseller in nineteenth-century… Read More
