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Writing and Place: The Cairngorms

The Cairngorms National Park has inspired writing by Merryn Glover, whose books include The...

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Writing and Place: Cornwall

The coastline of Cornwall and its communities are the subject of a non fiction book called The...

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The Black Country past and present

In The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens portrayed The Black Country as a polluted hellscape...

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Depicting AIDS in Drama

Russell T. Davies is joined by his friend and author of Love from the Pink Palace, Jill Nalder to...

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Landladies

Louise Jameson joins Matthew Sweet to recall the women who ran the digs she stayed in as a...

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Late works

Dame Sheila Hancock, Geoff Dyer and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and...

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Dark Places

Crime writer Ann Cleeves, theologian Mona Siddiqui, deep sea fish expert and podcast host Thomas...

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ETA Hoffmann

The German Romantic author of horror and fantasy published stories which form the basis of...

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My Neighbour Totoro

A world of sprites and spirits encountered by childhood sisters in the 1988 animated feature film...

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Oliver Postgate

The creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood...

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The Wife of Bath

Chaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than...

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The Wife of Bath

Chaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than...

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Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

Glenda Jackson plays part of a love triangle in John Schlesinger's follow up to his Oscar winning...

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Writing and Place: Wales

A Roman road which winds up through central Wales forms the spine of the latest book by Tom...

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Writing and Place: The North-East

Jessica Andrews grew up in Sunderland and has written two novels - Saltwater and Milk Teeth. Jake...

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Writing and Place: Northern Ireland

Small town life in Northern Ireland is the focus of this conversation about writing and place....

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Rock Follies

Rula Lenska was one of the stars of this 1970s TV series about a fictional female band, playing...

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Oxford Philosophy

The influence of World War Two on philosophical thinking is the focus of today's discussion as...

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Childhood and play

How do children develop language and experiment with sounds? What toys help them develop? And,...

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South Asia: poverty and princes

Joya Chatterji has written about the South Asian twentieth century in her new book called Shadows...

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