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Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012

Tributes are being paid to the venerable Marxists historian Eric Hobsbawm, who has died at the ege of 95.

A number of his TV and radio appearances have been logged in BUFVC databases over the years (click here for a selection, more will be available to member who log-in first).

Among the interviews and talks available online, here is a brief selection:

Newsnight – 19 January 2012
http://youtu.be/oe-puSGYxRA

How to Change the World – 25 February 2011

World Oral Literature Project – 13 September 2009

(available to download from: www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1121594)

War and Peace in the 20th Century – 6 December 2001
Stream / Download from www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1235

In Our Time: The Avant Garde’s Decline and Fall in the 20th Century – 25 February 1999

(BBC Radio 4 – click here)

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