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Wired for Books: Ken Silverman (About Edgar Allan Poe) (1992)

Subject

Literature

Ken Silverman, author of Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, Houdini!!!, Lightning Man : The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, and many more, discusses the life of Edgar Allan Poe with...

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Cracking the Shakespeare Code (2007 Video)

Series

Catholic Literature

Video podcast. The 2007 Catholic Literature Series focuses on Shakespeare and his relationship to Catholicism. While Shakespeare’s place in the Western canon is settled, the controversial question of his...

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Interview with Peter Carey (2000)

Subject

Literature

The website gives a printed version of an interview between Cathy Border and Peter Carey, held at the Brisbane Irish Club on 18 October 2000. Carey’s replies to some of the questions about his book ‘The...

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Using Literature to Know Ourselves (2023 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 230

Series

Unsiloed with Greg Lablanc

Podcast hosted by Greg LaBlanc. When we read fiction, our brains are able to suspend our awareness of the fiction so we can fully immerse ourselves in the story we’re reading. When this happens, we are...

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World Book Club Recording: Julian Barnes

Subject

English language and literature; FE

Every month on BBC World Service Radio, presenter Harriett Gilbert chairs a World Book Club discussion with an internationally acclaimed author about one of their best-known books, in front of an invited...

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World Book Club Recording: Jung Chang

Subject

English language and literature; FE

Every month on BBC World Service Radio, presenter Harriett Gilbert chairs a World Book Club discussion with an internationally acclaimed author about one of their best-known books, in front of an invited...

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Wired for Books: Dotson Raider (About Tennessee Williams) (1985)

Subject

Drama; Literature

Dotson Raider talks with Don Swaim in this 1985 interview about Raider’s relationship with the late playwright, Tennessee Williams. Dotson Raider was a close personal friend of Williams and is able to...

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Derek Walcott - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from a radio interview with the West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Derek Walcott applies an inventive use of language in his plays and...

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W.B. Yeats - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from a National Lecture on Modern Poetry given by Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, originally broadcast on 11/10/1936, in which he talks about the work of Edith Sitwell, the effect of...

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Sophia on the Cydnus: Shakespeare’s Alexandrian Softscapes (2022 Video)

Recording of an online illustrated lecture by Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine) on Shakespeare and Hebrew wisdom literature, delivered as part of the SEDERI Conference in Barcelona....

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