Best Tudor Alexander Podcasts (2022)

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The Dance Of Life Podcast with Tudor Alexander

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282: Seasons of Life 18:08

2d ago18:08

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Update on my personal situation and discussion on the importance of accepting the season you are in.By Tudor Alexander

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277: Yoto Carnegie Medal Ceremony: Yusef Salaam, Jason Reynolds and the winner! 57:43

1h ago57:43

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This week we're coming from The British Library, and the award ceremony for this year’s Yoto Carnegie Medal. Yusef Salaam tells us about his experience as a member of the Exonerated Five and how it fed into 'Punching the Air'. We go back to 2021 winner, Jason Reynolds, who examines the walk home from school in 'Look Both Ways'. Lynne Livingstone, M…

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Late works 45:33

1d ago45:33

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Geoff Dyer, Dame Sheila Hancock and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians near the end of their careers.Old Rage by Sheila Hancock is out now.The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer is out now.Rachel Stott is a composer and plays viola with the Revolutionary Drawing Room…

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ETA Hoffmann 45:04

22m ago45:04

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The German Romantic author of horror and fantasy published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the ballet Coppélia and the Nutcracker. In the theatre he worked as a stagehand, decorator, playwright and manager and he wrote his own musical works. His opera Undine ended its run at the Berlin Theatre after …

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New Thinking: Waiting 36:05

8m ago36:05

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Waiting is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s in the waiting room of a GP surgery or waiting for lockdown to end.As part of the Waiting Times project, Dr Michael Flexer, a publicly engaged research fellow at the University of Exeter, explores different concepts of waiting and suggests that some forms of waiting – for seeds to grow, for the cu…

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Sheffield reinvented 45:17

29m ago45:17

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John Gallagher with an exploration of Sheffield's cultural history through new words, music and film.By BBC Radio 3

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276: Thriller Special: Scott Kershaw, CJ Tudor & Femi Kayode 57:43

4d ago57:43

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A Thriller Special! Scott Kershaw reveals how a spate of dog-nappings inspired his chilling high-concept thriller ‘The Game’. Femi Kayode transports us to Nigeria for his tense thriller, ‘Lightseekers’. CJ Tudor tells us how an innocent game with her daughter morphed into her creepy debut 'The Chalk Man'. And we return to Scott Kershaw for the Book…

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Slow Film and Ecology 45:40

20h ago45:40

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Can a 40-hour film of a Massachusetts garden or a project documenting rice growing over 40 years help us to understand our planet better? Who makes and who watches such projects? Matthew Sweet is joined by film historian Becca Voelcker who has watched projects recorded in Japan, Colombia, Scotland and America; Thomas Halliday, whose book Otherlands…

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Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922 45:20

5h ago45:20

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Understanding James Joyce's eye troubles gives you a different way of reading his book Ulysses. That's the contention of Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, who shares her research with presenter Shahidha Bari. Emma West has delved into the history of the Arts League of Service travelling theatre, who went about in a battered old van performing plays, songs, ball…

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South African writing 45:25

23h ago45:25

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Damon Galgut's novel, The Promise, explores the decline of the white Afrikaner Swart family and their failed promise to their black domestic servant. The family resist giving her, her own house and her own land as South Africa emerges from the era of apartheid. Land also occupies Julia Blackburn in her new book Dreaming the Karoo, which explores tr…

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281: The Problem with "Personal Growth" 51:13

14d ago51:13

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281: The Problem with "Personal Growth"By Tudor Alexander

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John McGrath's Scottish Drama 44:22

5d ago44:22

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Bill Paterson is a founding member of the 7:84 company established by John McGrath, his wife Elizabeth and her brother to create radical, popular theatre. Fusing techniques popularised by Bertolt Brecht with Scottish performance traditions, their best-known play The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) explored class struggle, the cle…

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275: Yoto Carnegie Medal: Katya Balen, Phil Earle & Sue Divin 57:43

14d ago57:43

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This week we will be taking a look at more of the books short-listed for this year’s Yoto Carnegie Medal. Katya Balen helps us find some inner-city wilderness and ponders our possessions in 'October, October'. Phil Earle takes us to London during the blitz, where a gorilla changes the life of an angry boy in 'When the Sky Falls'. Sue Divin looks to…

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Victorian streets 44:36

6d ago44:36

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Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one? It's possible that there's a gap between the realities of street life in the Victorian city and how it has been thought of and portrayed in subsequent eras. Matthew Sweet is joined by historians Sarah Wise, Oskar Jensen, Lynda Nead and Fern Riddell to sift ha…

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The Wolfson Prize 2022 45:15

14d ago45:15

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Witches, statues, God's body, the Ottomans, medieval church going and seventeenth century England as a "devil land" are the topics explored in this year's shortlisted books. Rana Mitter interviews the authors ahead of the announcement of the winning book on June 22nd.The six books are:The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David BaerThe R…

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New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities 39:31

14d ago39:31

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Covert queer communities are examined as Naomi Paxton is joined by Dr Tom Hulme and Dr Ting Guo.Tom Hulme is senior lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast. As part of the research project Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation, Tom draws on under- or never-before used arch…

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280: What it Means to Worship Something 38:20

21d ago38:20

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280: What it Means to Worship SomethingBy Tudor Alexander

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274: Platinum Jubilee Special: Sarah, Duchess of York; Onjali Rauf & the Big Jubilee Read 57:43

22d ago57:43

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This week we're celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Sarah, Duchess of York, will share some royal reminiscences and explore her own lineage through her new historical romance ‘Her Heart For a Compass’. Robert Kirkwood discovers some Crown jewels in the RNIB Library. Onjali Q Rauf takes us on a right royal adventure as ‘The Boy at the Back of …

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Get Carter 45:11

19d ago45:11

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he film starring Michael Caine was adapted from a 1970 Ted Lewis novel set in an underworld of gangsters and teenage pornography. Mike Hodges, Nick Triplow, Pamela Hutchinson and John Gray talk with Matthew Sweet about the influence of the book and re-watch the film, which has just been restored in 4k and returns to UK cinemas this summer.Originall…

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Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy 45:05

20d ago45:05

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In Amia Srinivasan's book The Right To Sex she discusses some of the most hotly controversial topics of today: sex work, pornography, the nature of sexual liberation. What can and should a philosopher bring to these debates?Also, we explore one of the philosophical techniques informing Srinivasan's work: genealogy. First named by Friedrich Nietzsch…

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Oceans and the Sea 45:22

20d ago45:22

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Smugglers, refugees, trade and melting ice and polar exploration are part of the conversation as Rana Mitter is joined in the BBC tent at the Hay Festival by Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose books have drawn on his birthplace Zanzibar and the refugees arriving at the Kent coast; climate scientist Professor Emily Shuckburgh, who w…

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New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet 14:44

25d ago14:44

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Images of Cyril and Methodios adorn libraries, universities, cathedrals and passport pages in Slavonic speaking countries from Bulgaria to Russia, North Macedonia to Ukraine. But the journeys undertaken as religious envoys by these inventors of the Cyrillic alphabet have led to competing claims and political disagreements. Mirela Ivanova's essay co…

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New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art 14:58

29d ago14:58

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Sculptures like mouldy fruit, sea creatures that look like oil, blocks of ice carved from a melting glacier and transported to a gallery, reforesting a disused quarry: Vid Simoniti looks at different examples of environmental art and asks whether they create empathy with nature and inspire behaviour change or do we really need pictures of loft insu…

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New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown 14:52

29d ago14:52

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The discovery of goffering irons, the tools used to shape ruffs, by an archaeological dig in North America, gives us clues about the way the first English settlers lived. Lauren Working's essay looks at the symbolism of the Elizabethan fashion for ruffs. Now back in fashion on zoom, they were denounced by Puritans, shown off in portraits of explore…

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273: Boswell Book Festival 2022 57:44

28d ago57:44

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Robert Kirkwood takes us to Dumfries House in Ayrshire for the Boswell Book Festival, the world's only festival of biography and memoir. We hear from Keith Brymer Jones, host of the Great Pottery Throwdown and author of Boy in a China Shop, Katherine McInnes tells us about the Snow Widows left behind by Scott's ill-fated South Pole mission, Andrew …

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Tudor families 44:40

25d ago44:40

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Henry VIII from a female perspective is on offer at the Globe Theatre this summer in a new adaptation of the play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. Globe writer in residence Hannah Khalil explains some of the more surprising innovations in this production, while New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday presents the familiar saga of Henry VIII as…

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The Tudor Mind 44:58

1M ago44:58

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Royal Trumpeter John Blanke's image is on show alongside portraits of the Tudor monarchy in an exhibition opening at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. Blanke is the only black Tudor for whom we have an identifiable picture, painted on horseback in the royal retinue. New Generation Thinker Christina Faraday has been looking at these and other Tudor a…

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272: Yoto Carnegie Medal: Julian Sedgwick, Manjeet Mann &Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock 57:43

1M ago57:43

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The first of our Yoto Carnegie Medal specials! Julian Sedgwick blends prose and manga to revisiting the aftermath of the Fukishima nuclear catastrophe in 'Tsunami Girl'. Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock tackles teen issues in her series of short stories 'Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town'. Manjeet Man explores the things we have in common, no matter where w…

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Tattoos 44:26

1M ago44:26

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The Forty Thieves gang, Buffalo Bill, designs chosen by sailors, convicts, lovers: Shahidha Bari looks at the history of tattoos with Matt Lodder, Zoe Alker and Tanya Buxton from the opening of the first commercial parlour in London’s West End in 1889 to the most popular images now and their use to enhance wellbeing.Zoe Alker has studied over 75,00…

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Goddesses 43:51

1M ago43:51

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From monumental sculpture from ancient Greece, Egypt and India, wall hangings from Japan and China, to Western fine art, a British Museum exhibition asks: what does female spiritual power mean past and present? Christopher Harding is joined by the curator Belinda Crerar and by Ronald Hutton, whose new book explores Pagan Goddesses in Christian Euro…

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Gandhi, Indian Architecture 45:17

1M ago45:17

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The man who killed Gandhi is the subject of a new play opening at the National Theatre by Anupama Chandrasekhar. She's one of Rana Mitter's guests along with Balkrishna Doshi, a Riba Gold Medal winner for his buildings, which include low-cost housing and research into environmental design. He studied with Le Corbusier and historian Vikram Visana jo…

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Soil 45:14

1M ago45:14

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John Gallagher digs deep into the significance of soil with food grower and gardener Claire Ratinon, Dr Jim Scown, who has researched the role of soil in the novels of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, and Anna da Silva, Project Director of Northern Roots, the UK’s largest urban farm and eco-park in the heart of Oldham in Greater…

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Speaking Welsh 45:03

1M ago45:03

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TV shows Hinterland and Hidden are bilingual using Welsh and English. Caryl Lewis, who has written scripts for these TV dramas and award-winning novels, joins Catherine Fletcher for an exploration of Cymraeg, the Welsh language. We hear from Richard King, whose book Brittle with Relics is an oral history of Wales in the second half of the twentieth…

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New Thinking: Flooding and Energy 34:06

1M ago34:06

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How decoding Erewash, Trent, Averham and other field, river and place names from old maps can help us understand flooding patterns in Britain. Dr Richard Jones, Associate Professor of Landscape History at the University of Leicester is one of Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough’s guests. Her second guest is Dr Rebecca Wright, a Social and Cultural Histori…

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The Dance Of Life Podcast with Tudor Alexander

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279: The Answer to Suffering 45:46

1M ago45:46

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There is only one answer to suffering and death, and that is Jesus Christ.By Tudor Alexander

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271: Blind Authors: Fiona Scott-Barrett, Mark Hardie, Jill Fry and James Thurber 57:43

1M ago57:43

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This week, we’re focussing on blind authors: Fiona Scott-Barrett charts the journey of her book ‘The Exit Facility’ from first concept to fully accessible print and audiobook. 84-year-old debut author Jill Fry describes what life was like for her as a low-vision child in her memoir ‘Born Too Soon’. Blind crime writer Mark Hardie shares some of the …

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Soho 44:36

1M ago44:36

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Soho in films from 1948-1963 and the 1970s glamour and porn industry discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.Producer: Torquil MacLeodHotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Fillm and the Permissive Society by Benjamin Halligan is out now and so is Soho On Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bo…

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The Dance Of Life Podcast with Tudor Alexander

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278: Proof That God Exists 55:05

2M ago55:05

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The God of the Bible is the one and only, true God of the universe.By Tudor Alexander

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270: LD Lapinski, Kwame Alexander, Angie Thomas and Lou Kuenzler 57:43

2M ago57:43

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Ahead of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, we will be considering how children’s books approach some of the more sensitive topics life has to offer: LD Lapinski takes us to a dark place in the final adventure with her Strangeworlds Travel Agency Kwame Alexander gets poetic as he considers bereavement in his novel 'Rebound'. Angie Thomas addresses gun violen…

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Mental Health 45:11

2M ago45:11

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From a death row prisoner to the schemes to raise money dreamt up by his father: human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has written a memoir exploring the impact of mental health on his family, his clients in the legal system and himself. New Generation Thinker Sabina Dosani is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She writes a postcard…

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Odessa Stories 45:06

2M ago45:06

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Isaac Babel, born in Odessa in 1894, became a journalist and writer before being executed in 1940 in Stalin's purges. In stories of extreme economy and compression, he depicted the Polish-Soviet War of 1918-21, and the exploits of Jewish gangsters in Odessa in the years before the Soviet revolution. Matthew Sweet is joined by Linda Grant, AD Miller…

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Pause for Thought 14:18

2M ago14:18

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From full stops to emojis, a Tudor letter to texting - how has the use of punctuation marks developed over the centuries? Florence Hazrat thinks about the way brackets help us understand the pandemic. The first parentheses appear in a 1399 manuscript by the Italian lawyer Coluccio Salutati, but - as her essay outlines - it took over 500 years for t…

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Opium Tales 12:58

2M ago12:58

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Linking tea, sugar, opium, addiction and trade, Fariha Shaikh's essay looks at the novel An Insular Possession published in 1986 by Timothy Mo, and at Amitav Ghosh's trilogy which began in 2008 with Sea of Poppies and how their depiction of the opium trade differs from the publication in 1821 of Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, wh…

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New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians 13:20

2M ago13:20

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What made him great? Celebrated as a military leader, Alexander took over an empire created by the Persians. Julia Hartley's essay looks at two examples of myth-making about Alexander: The Persian Boy, a 1972 historical novel by the English writer Mary Renault and the Shānāmeh or ‘Book of Kings’, an epic written by the medieval Persian poet Abdolgh…

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Windows 44:30

2M ago44:30

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From Hitchcock to George Formby, stained glass to Rachel Whiteread, Cindy Sherman to Rembrandt. A new exhibition called Reframed: The Woman in the Window is the starting point for today's conversation about windows covering everything from voyeurism and vandalism to stained glass and modernism. Shahidha Bari is joined by film scholar Adam Scovell, …

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