1antimuzak
Wednesday 3rd August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Allan Little examines why Walter Scott fell so dramatically out of public favour after dominating the 19th century cultural landscape as a poet and historical novelist, looking at why writers from the 20th century onwards began to denigrate his work as prolix, dull twaddle. With readings by Gary Ross.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Allan Little examines why Walter Scott fell so dramatically out of public favour after dominating the 19th century cultural landscape as a poet and historical novelist, looking at why writers from the 20th century onwards began to denigrate his work as prolix, dull twaddle. With readings by Gary Ross.
2antimuzak
Wednesday 31st August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
In January 1921, in a Europe still reeling from war and revolution, the Czech writer Karel Capek created a worldwide hit with his 'comedy of science and truth' R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), flesh not metal, are sold around the world first to create a world free from arduous labour and then to fight our wars. Free from consciousness or feelings. What could possibly go wrong? Humanity stops breeding and a new class of feeling robots strike out for a brave new world once humankind is all but exterminated. This now seems awfully familiar but in 1921 not so much. Ken Hollings examines the creation and legacy of a play that both gifted the world the word Robot and began an enduring cliché that intelligent machines will rise up and destroy us. Written before pulp science fiction and at the height of Taylorism and the Ford assembly line, it found an international audience anxious about the fate of workers and work, revolution and mass production. But Capek's fleshy creations, more replicant that TOBOR, would soon be overlayed with the image of the clanking metal machine that would surely seek world domination on the covers of pulp science fiction and movies. In fiction the SKYNET is always falling, our robot overlords must be welcomed and the singularity is just around the corner. The science of Robotics would only begin in earnest decades after R.U.R. and A.I. and its ethical conundrums of existence, rights and reasoning belong to our 21st century yet Capek's notion of the revolt of the machines still dances through our debates and imagination. Ken Hollings talks to historians, roboticists, to grasp the power of R.U.R. and all that has followed.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
In January 1921, in a Europe still reeling from war and revolution, the Czech writer Karel Capek created a worldwide hit with his 'comedy of science and truth' R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), flesh not metal, are sold around the world first to create a world free from arduous labour and then to fight our wars. Free from consciousness or feelings. What could possibly go wrong? Humanity stops breeding and a new class of feeling robots strike out for a brave new world once humankind is all but exterminated. This now seems awfully familiar but in 1921 not so much. Ken Hollings examines the creation and legacy of a play that both gifted the world the word Robot and began an enduring cliché that intelligent machines will rise up and destroy us. Written before pulp science fiction and at the height of Taylorism and the Ford assembly line, it found an international audience anxious about the fate of workers and work, revolution and mass production. But Capek's fleshy creations, more replicant that TOBOR, would soon be overlayed with the image of the clanking metal machine that would surely seek world domination on the covers of pulp science fiction and movies. In fiction the SKYNET is always falling, our robot overlords must be welcomed and the singularity is just around the corner. The science of Robotics would only begin in earnest decades after R.U.R. and A.I. and its ethical conundrums of existence, rights and reasoning belong to our 21st century yet Capek's notion of the revolt of the machines still dances through our debates and imagination. Ken Hollings talks to historians, roboticists, to grasp the power of R.U.R. and all that has followed.
3antimuzak
Thursday 1st September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
When he was a boy and returned to the family home from primary school in the afternoon, Carlo Gébler would often hear the sound of typing coming from the shed at the foot of the garden. This was where his mother, the writer Edna O'Brien, sometimes went to write her novels. Later, when he lay in bed at night, Carlo would again hear the sound of typing. This time it would be coming from the downstairs front room where his father, Ernest Gébler, wrote plays for television. Now 66 and an acclaimed author himself, Carlo wants to know why the children of writers often follow their parent's footsteps into literature. Exploring the dynamics of literary lineage and his own journey into writing, he asks if it is simply an iron law that the apple rarely falls far from the tree - or if the truth is something far more complex.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
When he was a boy and returned to the family home from primary school in the afternoon, Carlo Gébler would often hear the sound of typing coming from the shed at the foot of the garden. This was where his mother, the writer Edna O'Brien, sometimes went to write her novels. Later, when he lay in bed at night, Carlo would again hear the sound of typing. This time it would be coming from the downstairs front room where his father, Ernest Gébler, wrote plays for television. Now 66 and an acclaimed author himself, Carlo wants to know why the children of writers often follow their parent's footsteps into literature. Exploring the dynamics of literary lineage and his own journey into writing, he asks if it is simply an iron law that the apple rarely falls far from the tree - or if the truth is something far more complex.
4antimuzak
Sunday 4th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
A look at the impact of Virginia Woolf's The Waves 90 years on from its publication. Novelist Amy Sackville examines the author's interest in rhythm over narrative, while musician Steve Harley recalls the precise moment the novel inspired his song Riding the Waves. Dramaturg Uzma Hameed traces the translation of Woolf's language from the page to the stage in Wayne McGregor's acclaimed ballet Woolf Works, pianist Lana Bode reflects on the musicality of Woolf's language, and composer Jeremy Thurlow reveals both how Woolf was inspired by music and how her work has inspired his own music. With readings by Emma Fielding.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
A look at the impact of Virginia Woolf's The Waves 90 years on from its publication. Novelist Amy Sackville examines the author's interest in rhythm over narrative, while musician Steve Harley recalls the precise moment the novel inspired his song Riding the Waves. Dramaturg Uzma Hameed traces the translation of Woolf's language from the page to the stage in Wayne McGregor's acclaimed ballet Woolf Works, pianist Lana Bode reflects on the musicality of Woolf's language, and composer Jeremy Thurlow reveals both how Woolf was inspired by music and how her work has inspired his own music. With readings by Emma Fielding.
5antimuzak
Sunday 16th October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6
Simon Heffer believes that Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony is the composer's greatest symphonic work. To lift the veil on this masterpiece, he invites the conductor Martyn Brabbins in the studio, to discuss this symphony delving into its possible meanings and undercurrents movement by movement. Also joining Heffer is Stephen Connock, Vice Chairman of the Vaughan Williams Society, and Kathy Atherton, historian and Chairman of the Dorking Museum and Heritage Centre. Through conversations with Connock and Atherton, Heffer explores a little researched area of the composers life: his involvement helping refugees.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6
Simon Heffer believes that Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony is the composer's greatest symphonic work. To lift the veil on this masterpiece, he invites the conductor Martyn Brabbins in the studio, to discuss this symphony delving into its possible meanings and undercurrents movement by movement. Also joining Heffer is Stephen Connock, Vice Chairman of the Vaughan Williams Society, and Kathy Atherton, historian and Chairman of the Dorking Museum and Heritage Centre. Through conversations with Connock and Atherton, Heffer explores a little researched area of the composers life: his involvement helping refugees.
6antimuzak
Sunday 23rd October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Radio pioneer Lance Sieveking headed the BBC's Programme Research Department in 1928 and saw radio as art and himself as an artist and producer. His book The Stuff of Radio, he described as "observations about a new art, comparing its technique with that of other arts. The Mystery of Painting with Sound." Absorbing modernist theories and practices of the time, and influenced by the emerging field of psychoanalysis, he created innovative and experimental radio which fully exploited the creative potential of the new technology available to him. In this feature we hear newly recorded extracts of Sieveking's "first full-sized" 70-minute-long live radio "experiment", The Kaleidoscope, a Rhythm, Representing the Life of Man from Cradle to Grave. Time travelling back to the BBC studios where Sieveking 'conducted' his experiment, the producer and composer Nina Perry creates a kaleidoscopic montage, made with modern-day audio technology, to reveal the daring complexity of what was at the time, an exceptional feat of live broadcasting involving seven different studios with actors, a choir, a quintet, a jazz band, sound effects and a full orchestra. The actor Colin Morgan plays the role of Lance Sieveking, London Bubble Young Theatre Makers perform a reading of Kaleidoscope and discuss their impressions of the script exploring how Sieveking and his experimental storytelling in sound resonates for us now.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Radio pioneer Lance Sieveking headed the BBC's Programme Research Department in 1928 and saw radio as art and himself as an artist and producer. His book The Stuff of Radio, he described as "observations about a new art, comparing its technique with that of other arts. The Mystery of Painting with Sound." Absorbing modernist theories and practices of the time, and influenced by the emerging field of psychoanalysis, he created innovative and experimental radio which fully exploited the creative potential of the new technology available to him. In this feature we hear newly recorded extracts of Sieveking's "first full-sized" 70-minute-long live radio "experiment", The Kaleidoscope, a Rhythm, Representing the Life of Man from Cradle to Grave. Time travelling back to the BBC studios where Sieveking 'conducted' his experiment, the producer and composer Nina Perry creates a kaleidoscopic montage, made with modern-day audio technology, to reveal the daring complexity of what was at the time, an exceptional feat of live broadcasting involving seven different studios with actors, a choir, a quintet, a jazz band, sound effects and a full orchestra. The actor Colin Morgan plays the role of Lance Sieveking, London Bubble Young Theatre Makers perform a reading of Kaleidoscope and discuss their impressions of the script exploring how Sieveking and his experimental storytelling in sound resonates for us now.
7antimuzak
Sunday 13th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
When looking back on the past 100 years of recorded and broadcast sound, one small thing tends to be forgotten - ignored and literally spoken over - omnipresent but invisible, just out of shot - the microphone. In this programme, Alan Dein explores the cultural history of the microphone, arguing that this unobtrusive, tenacious object has changed people's lives more profoundly than they realise.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
When looking back on the past 100 years of recorded and broadcast sound, one small thing tends to be forgotten - ignored and literally spoken over - omnipresent but invisible, just out of shot - the microphone. In this programme, Alan Dein explores the cultural history of the microphone, arguing that this unobtrusive, tenacious object has changed people's lives more profoundly than they realise.
8antimuzak
Sunday 27th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Inspired by Basil Bunting's epic poem Briggflatts, Rory Stewart camps under starlit skies on a northern odyssey through Bunting's beloved borderlands of Northumbria.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Inspired by Basil Bunting's epic poem Briggflatts, Rory Stewart camps under starlit skies on a northern odyssey through Bunting's beloved borderlands of Northumbria.
9antimuzak
Sunday 11th December 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Lucy Ask tells the story behind the creation of Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 13, which was inspired by Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem about the massacre of 34,000 Jews by Nazi Germany in a ravine near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in 1941. She pieces together the events leading up to the controversial first performance by speaking to people who witnessed it in a Moscow concert hall 60 years ago, incuding the composer's son Maxim Shostakovich, the poet's sister Elena Yevtushenko and music critic Iosif Raiskin.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Lucy Ask tells the story behind the creation of Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 13, which was inspired by Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem about the massacre of 34,000 Jews by Nazi Germany in a ravine near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in 1941. She pieces together the events leading up to the controversial first performance by speaking to people who witnessed it in a Moscow concert hall 60 years ago, incuding the composer's son Maxim Shostakovich, the poet's sister Elena Yevtushenko and music critic Iosif Raiskin.
10antimuzak
Sunday 8th January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Playwright Clare Pollard pieces together the life and work of poet Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England who wrote the first-ever sonnet sequence in the English language. With contributions from Deirdre Serjeantson, Susan Felch and Jake Arthur, while the readings are by Colin Ryan and Ruth Everett.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Playwright Clare Pollard pieces together the life and work of poet Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England who wrote the first-ever sonnet sequence in the English language. With contributions from Deirdre Serjeantson, Susan Felch and Jake Arthur, while the readings are by Colin Ryan and Ruth Everett.
11antimuzak
Sunday 12th March 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European.
One day, three decades after the event, German poet and man of letters Heinrich Heine stood on the site of the Battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories and had an epiphany: `There are no more nations in Europe, only parties; and it is marvellous to see how these parties, for all their varying colouration recognize one another and how they understand one another, despite many differences in language." Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Heine's life and the Europe in which he lived using the musical settings of his poetry in lieder, readings from his poetry and plays, and George Eliot's perceptive comments.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European.
One day, three decades after the event, German poet and man of letters Heinrich Heine stood on the site of the Battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories and had an epiphany: `There are no more nations in Europe, only parties; and it is marvellous to see how these parties, for all their varying colouration recognize one another and how they understand one another, despite many differences in language." Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Heine's life and the Europe in which he lived using the musical settings of his poetry in lieder, readings from his poetry and plays, and George Eliot's perceptive comments.
12antimuzak
Sunday 7th May 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch.
Author and artist Denton Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33 years old and his writing has been very badly neglected since then. Regan Hutchins celebrates the short career of this cult writer, meeting other readers and fans who find links between Welch's life story and their own.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch.
Author and artist Denton Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33 years old and his writing has been very badly neglected since then. Regan Hutchins celebrates the short career of this cult writer, meeting other readers and fans who find links between Welch's life story and their own.
13antimuzak
Sunday 18th June 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
What Did George Lloyd Do Wrong?
English composer George Lloyd achieved great success very early in his life, including symphonic performances by orchestras in Bournemouth, Penzance and Eastbourne, as well as two operas staged in London, including The Serf at Covent Garden. Yet from his mid-twenties and with the outbreak of the Second World War, Lloyd wouldn't see such success again for another 30 years, despite many attempts to interest people in his music. Simon Heffer is joined by the composer's nephew William Lloyd to help tease out the remarkable highs and lows of this turbulent creative trajectory.
George Lloyd's Sixth Symphony
Sunday 18th June 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (30 minutes long)
The composer conducts the BBC Philharmonic in his own Symphony No 6, and the Black Dyke Mills Brass Band perform his march HMS Trinidad.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
What Did George Lloyd Do Wrong?
English composer George Lloyd achieved great success very early in his life, including symphonic performances by orchestras in Bournemouth, Penzance and Eastbourne, as well as two operas staged in London, including The Serf at Covent Garden. Yet from his mid-twenties and with the outbreak of the Second World War, Lloyd wouldn't see such success again for another 30 years, despite many attempts to interest people in his music. Simon Heffer is joined by the composer's nephew William Lloyd to help tease out the remarkable highs and lows of this turbulent creative trajectory.
George Lloyd's Sixth Symphony
Sunday 18th June 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (30 minutes long)
The composer conducts the BBC Philharmonic in his own Symphony No 6, and the Black Dyke Mills Brass Band perform his march HMS Trinidad.
14antimuzak
Sunday 9th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Byrd and Beyond: Challenged by Faith.
When William Byrd converted to Catholicism halfway through his long life, he did so at a time of danger and persecution and for a while he was practising one faith while making music for another. He composed Catholic mass settings to be performed in secret, and wrote Latin motets at the same time that the Gunpowder Plot was being organised. His faith undoubtedly inspired him, but it also demanded much of him, on both a practical and personal level. The Sixteen conductor Harry Christophers explores these elements from Byrd's life and examines the complex relationship between faith and music, not only in Byrd's time but also in the present day, with contributions from composers James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Nico Muhly, as well as singers, theologians and musicians.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Byrd and Beyond: Challenged by Faith.
When William Byrd converted to Catholicism halfway through his long life, he did so at a time of danger and persecution and for a while he was practising one faith while making music for another. He composed Catholic mass settings to be performed in secret, and wrote Latin motets at the same time that the Gunpowder Plot was being organised. His faith undoubtedly inspired him, but it also demanded much of him, on both a practical and personal level. The Sixteen conductor Harry Christophers explores these elements from Byrd's life and examines the complex relationship between faith and music, not only in Byrd's time but also in the present day, with contributions from composers James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Nico Muhly, as well as singers, theologians and musicians.
15antimuzak
Monday 24th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Simone de Beauvoir.
A profile of the French author, philosopher and feminist told through the words of those who knew her and those who have studied her work, With the voice of Simone de Beauvoir courtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, and readings by Caroline Crier.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Simone de Beauvoir.
A profile of the French author, philosopher and feminist told through the words of those who knew her and those who have studied her work, With the voice of Simone de Beauvoir courtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, and readings by Caroline Crier.
16antimuzak
Tuesday 25th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:15 to 22:00 (45 minutes long)
A profile of the American poet Mary Oliver, that explores her poetic invitations to finding redemption, devotion and love within a harsh and beautiful world, featuring recordings of Oliver herself and interviews with publisher Helene Atwan, poet and friend Lisa Starr and writers Mary Jean Chan and Nadine Aisha Jassat.
Time: 21:15 to 22:00 (45 minutes long)
A profile of the American poet Mary Oliver, that explores her poetic invitations to finding redemption, devotion and love within a harsh and beautiful world, featuring recordings of Oliver herself and interviews with publisher Helene Atwan, poet and friend Lisa Starr and writers Mary Jean Chan and Nadine Aisha Jassat.
17antimuzak
Wednesday 26th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Reflections on the life and work of the Jamaican-British academic, writer and cultural studies pioneer, told through archive and contributions from those who knew him and his work. The programme explores Stuart Hall's ideas, influence and identities, including Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, founding editor of the New Left Review, TV presenter, political activist, lover of music and family man.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Reflections on the life and work of the Jamaican-British academic, writer and cultural studies pioneer, told through archive and contributions from those who knew him and his work. The programme explores Stuart Hall's ideas, influence and identities, including Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, founding editor of the New Left Review, TV presenter, political activist, lover of music and family man.
18antimuzak
Thursday 27th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Reflections on the life and career of the author, through audio archive featuring Muriel Spark herself as well as contributions from those who knew her and her work. With writers Ian Rankin and Zoe Strachan, Colin McIlroy of the National Library of Scotland and Spark's friend Alan Taylor.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Reflections on the life and career of the author, through audio archive featuring Muriel Spark herself as well as contributions from those who knew her and her work. With writers Ian Rankin and Zoe Strachan, Colin McIlroy of the National Library of Scotland and Spark's friend Alan Taylor.
19antimuzak
Friday 28th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The life and ideas of trailblazing Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in his own words, and through interviews with those who knew and loved him, or were inspired by him. With contributions by Somali novelist and poet Nuruddin Farah; author Caryl Phillips; Nigerian writer Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and Igbo historian (and Achebe's youngest child) Dr Nwando Achebe.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The life and ideas of trailblazing Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in his own words, and through interviews with those who knew and loved him, or were inspired by him. With contributions by Somali novelist and poet Nuruddin Farah; author Caryl Phillips; Nigerian writer Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and Igbo historian (and Achebe's youngest child) Dr Nwando Achebe.
20antimuzak
Monday 4th September 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Dear Phillis.
Momtaza Mehri explores the life, work and legacy of African-American poet Phillis Wheatley, a former slave who was celebrated for her poetry in 18th-century America and Britain.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Dear Phillis.
Momtaza Mehri explores the life, work and legacy of African-American poet Phillis Wheatley, a former slave who was celebrated for her poetry in 18th-century America and Britain.
21antimuzak
Wednesday 6th September 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Writer James Marriott explores the single day - or circadian - artwork, pioneered by James Joyce's epic Ulysses, published in February 1922, and generally considered a landmark moment in the emergence of the modernist movement before it swept through European culture.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Writer James Marriott explores the single day - or circadian - artwork, pioneered by James Joyce's epic Ulysses, published in February 1922, and generally considered a landmark moment in the emergence of the modernist movement before it swept through European culture.
22antimuzak
Sunday 22nd October 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
The Mouse That Roared: The Triumph of the Baroque Revival of 1973.
Nicholas Kenyon looks back at the baroque revival of 1973, an extraordinary year in which many of the UK's pioneering early music ensembles were established. He reflects on the excitement of that moment and the issues it raised, revisiting the sounds of those times and the places where they were heard, and asks the pioneers why it happened when it happened.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
The Mouse That Roared: The Triumph of the Baroque Revival of 1973.
Nicholas Kenyon looks back at the baroque revival of 1973, an extraordinary year in which many of the UK's pioneering early music ensembles were established. He reflects on the excitement of that moment and the issues it raised, revisiting the sounds of those times and the places where they were heard, and asks the pioneers why it happened when it happened.
23antimuzak
Sunday 5th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare's Rival.
Robert Greene was the hot young name on the Elizabethan writing scene in 1592, but after his death his reputation gradually faded and he mostly became known for calling Shakespeare an 'upstart crow'. Nandini Das revisits the birth of Elizabethan theatre through the story of Greene, examining how his life and works can offer new insight into what English theatre might have been beyond the shadow of Shakespeare.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare's Rival.
Robert Greene was the hot young name on the Elizabethan writing scene in 1592, but after his death his reputation gradually faded and he mostly became known for calling Shakespeare an 'upstart crow'. Nandini Das revisits the birth of Elizabethan theatre through the story of Greene, examining how his life and works can offer new insight into what English theatre might have been beyond the shadow of Shakespeare.
24antimuzak
Sunday 12th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Richard Hoggart.
The life and ideas of the literary critic and cultural theorist in his own words from the archives as well as those who knew, loved and were inspired by him. Best known for his groundbreaking study of working class culture The Uses of Literacy, published in 1957, Hoggart was a scholarship boy'from the backstreets of Leeds who became a prime mover in the foundation of cultural studies, a public intellectual, Reith lecturer, assistant director-general of Unesco and a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial of 1960. With archive from his many TV and radio appearances, Hoggart's prophetic thinking and pertinence today are reflected upon by author and cultural critic Nathalie Olah, novelist and biographer DJ Taylor, sociologist and writer Dan Evans, writer Lynsey Hanley and his journalist son Paul Hoggart.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Richard Hoggart.
The life and ideas of the literary critic and cultural theorist in his own words from the archives as well as those who knew, loved and were inspired by him. Best known for his groundbreaking study of working class culture The Uses of Literacy, published in 1957, Hoggart was a scholarship boy'from the backstreets of Leeds who became a prime mover in the foundation of cultural studies, a public intellectual, Reith lecturer, assistant director-general of Unesco and a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial of 1960. With archive from his many TV and radio appearances, Hoggart's prophetic thinking and pertinence today are reflected upon by author and cultural critic Nathalie Olah, novelist and biographer DJ Taylor, sociologist and writer Dan Evans, writer Lynsey Hanley and his journalist son Paul Hoggart.
25antimuzak
Sunday 19th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Maurice Sendak.
A profile of the children's author and illustrator, best known for Where the Wild Things Are, whose books offered a doorway into the vast inner landscapes of childhood. Featuring archive recordings of Sendak himself alongside interviews with his friends and collaborators, a Jungian analyst and poets and writers who've been inspired by his work including Arthur Yorinks, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Emily Berry and Michael Rosen.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Maurice Sendak.
A profile of the children's author and illustrator, best known for Where the Wild Things Are, whose books offered a doorway into the vast inner landscapes of childhood. Featuring archive recordings of Sendak himself alongside interviews with his friends and collaborators, a Jungian analyst and poets and writers who've been inspired by his work including Arthur Yorinks, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Emily Berry and Michael Rosen.
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