1antimuzak
Tuesday 13th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Octavia Butler's Kindred.
`A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to `tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know." Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nishi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist - and long time friend of Octavia Butler.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Octavia Butler's Kindred.
`A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to `tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know." Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nishi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist - and long time friend of Octavia Butler.
2antimuzak
Thursday 15th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
An Edinburgh Festival Discussion About Peter Watkins' Culloden and the Outlander Series.
In front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss how Peter Watkins' film Culloden has influenced portrayals of Highland identity in literature and film, 50 years after its release. Diana Gabaldon, author of the best-selling Outlander series, historian Tom Devine and media expert John Cook join Matthew to explore how Culloden was received in 1964 and the way it gave birth to the TV form of docu-drama and shaped the early development of Doctor Who.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
An Edinburgh Festival Discussion About Peter Watkins' Culloden and the Outlander Series.
In front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss how Peter Watkins' film Culloden has influenced portrayals of Highland identity in literature and film, 50 years after its release. Diana Gabaldon, author of the best-selling Outlander series, historian Tom Devine and media expert John Cook join Matthew to explore how Culloden was received in 1964 and the way it gave birth to the TV form of docu-drama and shaped the early development of Doctor Who.
3antimuzak
Wednesday 21st April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare's Life Lessons.
Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray and Emma Whipday share insights from their research into the dramas of Shakespeare.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare's Life Lessons.
Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray and Emma Whipday share insights from their research into the dramas of Shakespeare.
4antimuzak
Tuesday 27th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Epistemic Injustice.
Shahidha Bari talks with Miranda Fricker, Havi Carel and Constantine Sandis about epistemology and wider epistemological concepts.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Epistemic Injustice.
Shahidha Bari talks with Miranda Fricker, Havi Carel and Constantine Sandis about epistemology and wider epistemological concepts.
5antimuzak
Thursday 29th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland, talking to historians and writers.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland, talking to historians and writers.
6antimuzak
Tuesday 4th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Samuel Johnson's Circle.
Patience Agbabi's new novel travels back to 18th century London and Samuel Johnson's house. Sophie Coulombeau shares her findings from researching Hester Thrale Piozzi's diaries.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Samuel Johnson's Circle.
Patience Agbabi's new novel travels back to 18th century London and Samuel Johnson's house. Sophie Coulombeau shares her findings from researching Hester Thrale Piozzi's diaries.
7antimuzak
Tuesday 11th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman.
In a conversation set up in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library, Matthew Sweet talks fantasy and fiction with Marlon James and Neil Gaiman.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman.
In a conversation set up in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library, Matthew Sweet talks fantasy and fiction with Marlon James and Neil Gaiman.
8antimuzak
Tuesday 18th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Wolfson History Prize 2021.
Rana Mitter looks at how the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize tackled topics including Toussaint Louverture's revolutionary leadership in Haiti, how motherhood and work have changed from Victorian Manchester factories to the modern boardroom, and voices of children who experienced the Holocaust.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Wolfson History Prize 2021.
Rana Mitter looks at how the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize tackled topics including Toussaint Louverture's revolutionary leadership in Haiti, how motherhood and work have changed from Victorian Manchester factories to the modern boardroom, and voices of children who experienced the Holocaust.
9antimuzak
Wednesday 19th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War.
Rana Mitter's is joined by guests Patrick McGrath and Duncan Wheeler for a discussion of the Spanish Civil War, silences that remain, and how history is now being written.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War.
Rana Mitter's is joined by guests Patrick McGrath and Duncan Wheeler for a discussion of the Spanish Civil War, silences that remain, and how history is now being written.
10antimuzak
Tuesday 25th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Novelist Tahmima Anam, Plus was Nero a Ruthless Tyrant?
The Startup Wife is the title of Tahmima Anam's latest novel. Anne McElvoy talks to her about writing about the work/life balance and ideas about risk. New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova, from the University of Oxford, is researching Balkan history. She writes us a postcard about the strangely changing look of the main museum in Sofia, Bulgaria and why it's significant. And we look back at Roman history as the British Museum opens an exhibition Nero: the man behind the myth, talking to curator, Dr Thorsten Opper and historian, Tom Holland.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Novelist Tahmima Anam, Plus was Nero a Ruthless Tyrant?
The Startup Wife is the title of Tahmima Anam's latest novel. Anne McElvoy talks to her about writing about the work/life balance and ideas about risk. New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova, from the University of Oxford, is researching Balkan history. She writes us a postcard about the strangely changing look of the main museum in Sofia, Bulgaria and why it's significant. And we look back at Roman history as the British Museum opens an exhibition Nero: the man behind the myth, talking to curator, Dr Thorsten Opper and historian, Tom Holland.
11antimuzak
Thursday 27th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100.
Called a "genius" by Bertrand Russell, the young Wittgenstein began this influential book in Cambridge. In an event hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum, and in collaboration with the British Wittgenstein Society to mark 100 years since its publiction, Shahidha Bari discusses the contexts and contents of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with Wittgenstein's biographer Ray Monk, the philosopher Juliet Floyd, and Wittgenstein's niece Monica Nadler Wittgenstein. In the Preface to his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein claims to have solved all the problems of philosophy. The youngest son of one of the wealthiest families in Europe, based in Vienna, Ludwig moved to England in 1908 to study the then cutting edge-topic of flight aerodynamics. From there he developed an interest in pure mathematics, which led him to philosophy, and to the revolutionary work of the logician Gottlob Frege. Frege recommended he went to Cambridge to study with Bertrand Russell, who quickly recognised him as "perhaps the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived". The work that Wittgenstein began in Cambridge eventually led to the composition of the Tractatus, but not before the intervention of the First World War, during which he signed up to the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought in some of the fiercest battles on the Eastern Front, even volunteering for an observation post in no-man's-land. Finished whilst he was still in military service, the Tractatus combines an innovative account of the nature of logic with searching investigation of personhood and mysticism. Written in an aphoristic style that seems to conceal as much as it reveals, it is a major work of Viennese Modernism as well as a foundational text of analytical philosophy.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100.
Called a "genius" by Bertrand Russell, the young Wittgenstein began this influential book in Cambridge. In an event hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum, and in collaboration with the British Wittgenstein Society to mark 100 years since its publiction, Shahidha Bari discusses the contexts and contents of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with Wittgenstein's biographer Ray Monk, the philosopher Juliet Floyd, and Wittgenstein's niece Monica Nadler Wittgenstein. In the Preface to his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein claims to have solved all the problems of philosophy. The youngest son of one of the wealthiest families in Europe, based in Vienna, Ludwig moved to England in 1908 to study the then cutting edge-topic of flight aerodynamics. From there he developed an interest in pure mathematics, which led him to philosophy, and to the revolutionary work of the logician Gottlob Frege. Frege recommended he went to Cambridge to study with Bertrand Russell, who quickly recognised him as "perhaps the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived". The work that Wittgenstein began in Cambridge eventually led to the composition of the Tractatus, but not before the intervention of the First World War, during which he signed up to the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought in some of the fiercest battles on the Eastern Front, even volunteering for an observation post in no-man's-land. Finished whilst he was still in military service, the Tractatus combines an innovative account of the nature of logic with searching investigation of personhood and mysticism. Written in an aphoristic style that seems to conceal as much as it reveals, it is a major work of Viennese Modernism as well as a foundational text of analytical philosophy.
12antimuzak
Tuesday 15th June 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas.
Rana Mitter is joined in conversation by Nadifa Mohamed, who talks about her latest novel, The Fortunate Men. Plus, a look at the craft of Dylan Thomas's writing.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas.
Rana Mitter is joined in conversation by Nadifa Mohamed, who talks about her latest novel, The Fortunate Men. Plus, a look at the craft of Dylan Thomas's writing.
13antimuzak
Thursday 8th July 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence.
Matthew Sweet looks at the influence of mining on the early life of DH Lawrence, at traditions in the Durham coal region, and at the art of Prabhakar Pachpute on show at Artes Mundi.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence.
Matthew Sweet looks at the influence of mining on the early life of DH Lawrence, at traditions in the Durham coal region, and at the art of Prabhakar Pachpute on show at Artes Mundi.
14antimuzak
Wednesday 14th July 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Matthew Sweet and his guests, including the author Tom McCarthy, discuss the screen-writing, novels and philosophy of Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Matthew Sweet and his guests, including the author Tom McCarthy, discuss the screen-writing, novels and philosophy of Alain Robbe-Grillet.
15antimuzak
Thursday 29th July 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Saint John Henry Newman.
Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme marks 175 years since Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith on 23 Feb 1846, with a conversation exploring his thinking and poetic writing. Catherine Pepinster is former editor of the Tablet and the author of The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy Dafydd Mills Daniel is McDonald Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. His book is called Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph who studied history at Cambridge and who is a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald. Dr Kate Kennedy is Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Associate Director and a music specialist who has written on Ivor Gurney, and co-edited The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice and The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory. You can find a playlist Free Thinking explores religious belief. Including contributions from Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson and Simon Schama.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Saint John Henry Newman.
Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme marks 175 years since Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith on 23 Feb 1846, with a conversation exploring his thinking and poetic writing. Catherine Pepinster is former editor of the Tablet and the author of The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy Dafydd Mills Daniel is McDonald Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. His book is called Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph who studied history at Cambridge and who is a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald. Dr Kate Kennedy is Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Associate Director and a music specialist who has written on Ivor Gurney, and co-edited The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice and The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory. You can find a playlist Free Thinking explores religious belief. Including contributions from Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson and Simon Schama.
16antimuzak
Tuesday 14th September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Dante's Visions.
Rana Mitter and guests explore he way Dante's thinking and imagery have been taken up by other artists and writers.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Dante's Visions.
Rana Mitter and guests explore he way Dante's thinking and imagery have been taken up by other artists and writers.
17antimuzak
Tuesday 21st September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Hannah Arendt's Exploration of Totalitarianism.
Ideas shaping modern life.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Hannah Arendt's Exploration of Totalitarianism.
Ideas shaping modern life.
18antimuzak
Tuesday 28th September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Continuing Appeal of Tudor History and Historical Fiction.
Historical novelist Philippa Gregory, historians Susan Doran and Nandini Das, and literary scholar Adam Roberts join Matthew Sweet at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry to discuss the enduring appeal of Tudor history and the role that historical fiction plays in shaping our view of history.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Continuing Appeal of Tudor History and Historical Fiction.
Historical novelist Philippa Gregory, historians Susan Doran and Nandini Das, and literary scholar Adam Roberts join Matthew Sweet at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry to discuss the enduring appeal of Tudor history and the role that historical fiction plays in shaping our view of history.
19antimuzak
Wednesday 29th September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Thomas Mann.
Novelist Colm Toibin joins Anne McElvoy to discuss German author Thomas Mann's life and struggles.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Thomas Mann.
Novelist Colm Toibin joins Anne McElvoy to discuss German author Thomas Mann's life and struggles.
20antimuzak
Wednesday 6th October 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The British Academy Book Prize 2021.
Racial injustice in USA; ghost towns in post-industrial Scotland; how maritime history looks from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays; the roots of violence that has plagued postcolonial society. These are topics covered in the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Rana Mitter talks to the four authors who are: Cal Flynn: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Eddie S. Glaude Jr.: Begin Again: James Baldwin: America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today Mahmood Mamdani: Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities Sujit Sivasundaram: Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The British Academy Book Prize 2021.
Racial injustice in USA; ghost towns in post-industrial Scotland; how maritime history looks from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays; the roots of violence that has plagued postcolonial society. These are topics covered in the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Rana Mitter talks to the four authors who are: Cal Flynn: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Eddie S. Glaude Jr.: Begin Again: James Baldwin: America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today Mahmood Mamdani: Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities Sujit Sivasundaram: Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire.
21antimuzak
Wednesday 3rd November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Caesar, Hogarth and Images of Power.
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard and looks at Hogarth's links with Europe.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Caesar, Hogarth and Images of Power.
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard and looks at Hogarth's links with Europe.
22antimuzak
Tuesday 9th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021.
Cold, civil, world, uprising, conflict, war on terror: Anne McElvoy and her guests Elif Shafak, Christina Lamb and Robert Johnson explore the impact of the words we use to describe conflict. The Imperial War Museum has just revamped its `Second World War" galleries with changed dates and a wider focus and Cold War history is being rewritten in the light of current politics. So this year's Remembrance discussion asks how does language affect attitudes to war? Elif Shafak's latest novel The Island of Missing Trees explores the division of Cyprus. Dr Robert Johnson teaches history at the University of Oxford specialising in War; Strategy and Strategic Thinking; and Conflict in South West and Central Asia. He has written Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18 Journalist Christina Lamb's books include Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women and Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World and with Nujeen Mustafa she published The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom and with Malala Yousafzai she published I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Total War: A People's History of the Second World War and The Holocaust by IWM curators Kate Clements, Paul Cornish and Vikki Hawkins an illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe has been published to mark the re-opening of the IWM galleries. Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find a playlist on the Free Thinking website exploring war hearing from historians, writers, soldiers, diplomats, artists and including the previous Remembrance Discussions.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021.
Cold, civil, world, uprising, conflict, war on terror: Anne McElvoy and her guests Elif Shafak, Christina Lamb and Robert Johnson explore the impact of the words we use to describe conflict. The Imperial War Museum has just revamped its `Second World War" galleries with changed dates and a wider focus and Cold War history is being rewritten in the light of current politics. So this year's Remembrance discussion asks how does language affect attitudes to war? Elif Shafak's latest novel The Island of Missing Trees explores the division of Cyprus. Dr Robert Johnson teaches history at the University of Oxford specialising in War; Strategy and Strategic Thinking; and Conflict in South West and Central Asia. He has written Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18 Journalist Christina Lamb's books include Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women and Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World and with Nujeen Mustafa she published The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom and with Malala Yousafzai she published I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Total War: A People's History of the Second World War and The Holocaust by IWM curators Kate Clements, Paul Cornish and Vikki Hawkins an illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe has been published to mark the re-opening of the IWM galleries. Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find a playlist on the Free Thinking website exploring war hearing from historians, writers, soldiers, diplomats, artists and including the previous Remembrance Discussions.
23antimuzak
Tuesday 16th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
Shahidha Bari and guests consider Simone de Beauvoir's role in contemporary philosophy and Lauren Elkin describes translating a newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
Shahidha Bari and guests consider Simone de Beauvoir's role in contemporary philosophy and Lauren Elkin describes translating a newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
24antimuzak
Tuesday 23rd November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Romanian History and Literature.
Literature featuring the history of Romania, including Georgina Harding: In Another Europe: A Journey to Romania, published in 1990.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Romanian History and Literature.
Literature featuring the history of Romania, including Georgina Harding: In Another Europe: A Journey to Romania, published in 1990.
25antimuzak
Wednesday 24th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Christopher Logue: War Music.
As a new audio book of him reading his words is released, Shahidha Bari and her guests look at the poetic writing of Christopher Logue.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Christopher Logue: War Music.
As a new audio book of him reading his words is released, Shahidha Bari and her guests look at the poetic writing of Christopher Logue.
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