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The Wolfson Prize 2023
Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize.
Wolfson Prize 2023
Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize
The Black Country past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests with an audience at the 2022 Contains Strong Language Festival
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience
Landladies
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.
Late works
Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings
Dark Places
A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness
ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician
My Neighbour Totoro
Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
Oliver Postgate
Matthew Sweet & Daniel Postgate, musicians Sandra Kerr & Neil Brand, critic Samira Ahmed
