Victorian Bodies, Citizens of Everywhere
Rana Mitter talks about Victorian bodies with Kathryn Hughes and explores the Citizens of Everywhere arts project with poet and New Generation Thinker Sandeep Parmar.
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.
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.
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Top 20 Academic Books that Shaped Modern Britain
- A Brief History of Time (1988) by Stephen Hawking
- Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain (2013) by Matthew J Goodwin and Robert Ford聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
- Ways of Seeing (1972) by John Berger
- Gender Trouble (1990) by Judith Butler
- The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins
- Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885) by A.V. Dicey
- Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (1984) by Peter Fryer聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
- The Double Helix (1968) by James Watson
- The Invention of Tradition (1983) by Eric Hobsbawm
- The Making of the English Working Class (1963) by E.P. Thompson
- Purity and Danger (1966) by Mary Douglas
- The Uses of Literacy (1957) by Richard Hoggart
- Poverty in the United Kingdom (1979) by Peter Townsend
- Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) by John Maynard Keynes
- The Female Eunuch聽聽 (1970) by Germaine Greer
- Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1990) by R.F. Foster
- The English and their History (2014) by Robert Tombs聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
- The Road to Serfdom (1994)聽 by Friedrich Hayek
- The Scottish Nation (1999) by Tom Devine
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Rana Mitter |
| Interviewed Guest | Kathryn Hughes |
| Interviewed Guest | Stanley Price |
| Interviewed Guest | Sandeep Parmar |
| Interviewed Guest | Lauren Elkin |
| Interviewed Guest | James Rivington |
| Producer | Torquil MacLeod |
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- Thu 19 Jan 2017 22:0091热爆 Radio 3
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