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Free Thinking - Victorian Bodies, Citizens of Everywhere
Manage episode 411528503 series 1301164
Rana Mitter talks Victorian bodies with Kathryn Hughes from Darwin's beard to whether George Eliot had milkmaid's hands. Stanley Price explains how James Joyce and Italo Svevo forged a firm friendship when they met in Trieste. Poet and New Generation Thinker Sandeep Parmar and writer Lauren Elkin discuss the Citizens of Everywhere art project which will see commissioned writing, art, workshops in schools and debates exploring the idea of citizenship in a globalised world. James Rivington from the British Academy unveils the 20 Academic Books that Shaped Modern Britain ahead of Academic Book Week.
Kathryn Hughes latest book is called Victorians Undone.
Stanley Price has written James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
2014 episodes
Manage episode 411528503 series 1301164
Rana Mitter talks Victorian bodies with Kathryn Hughes from Darwin's beard to whether George Eliot had milkmaid's hands. Stanley Price explains how James Joyce and Italo Svevo forged a firm friendship when they met in Trieste. Poet and New Generation Thinker Sandeep Parmar and writer Lauren Elkin discuss the Citizens of Everywhere art project which will see commissioned writing, art, workshops in schools and debates exploring the idea of citizenship in a globalised world. James Rivington from the British Academy unveils the 20 Academic Books that Shaped Modern Britain ahead of Academic Book Week.
Kathryn Hughes latest book is called Victorians Undone.
Stanley Price has written James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
2014 episodes
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