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Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Deborah Moggach

Novelist Deborah Moggach revisits her first book, written in Pakistan.

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Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Harland Miller

Writer and painter Harland Miller on how a sign in his local eatery came to inspire him.

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Just Juvenilia: Janet Suzman

Actress Janet Suzman recalls working on the film Nicholas and Alexandra.

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Just Juvenilia: Stephen Coates

Stephen Coates of the band the Real Tuesday Weld recalls writing an early song in London.

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Just Juvenilia: Roger Michell

Director Roger Michell describes working on his first television drama, Downtown Lagos.

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The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

Anna Bertha's Hand

Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.

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The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Nebula in Orion

Omar Nasim discusses the very first pictures of a nebula, taken by Henry Draper in 1880.

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The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Dogon

Jeanne Haffner discusses how aerial photography changed the spaces we live in.

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The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Broom Cottages

Elizabeth Edwards on W Jerome Harrison's photo of the Broom cottages in Warwickshire.

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The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Tichborne Claimant

Exploring how an 1866 photograph of a butcher taken in Australia changed British law.

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Fear Itself

Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet reflects on an experiment designed to induce fear in a toddler.

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Fear Itself

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse on how educational films scared more children than any horror movie.

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Fear Itself

Quentin Skinner

How Thomas Hobbes came to argue that fear underpinned all human motivation and action.

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Fear Itself

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin considers the role fear and anxiety plays in autistic people's lives.

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Fear Itself

Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis explains how human fear is often led by thought and imagination.

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Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Nadezhda von Meck

Vanora Bennett on Tchaikovsky's generous benefactor, who refused to ever meet the composer

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Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Lady Maud Warrender

Kate Kennedy tells the story of Lady Maud Warrender, an aristocrat and patron of music.

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Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Leopoldine Wittgenstein

Bethany Bell on the life of Leopoldine Wittgenstein, host of a Viennese musical salon.

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Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Mary Gladstone

Discussing Mary Gladstone, daughter of William, who brought music to Downing Street.

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Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Betty Freeman

Helen Wallace on Betty Freeman, perhaps the greatest patron of modern classical music.

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Swimming Stories

Christopher Hope

Christopher Hope describes swimming in outdoor pools in Pretoria during his youth.

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Swimming Stories

Antonia Quirke

Antonia Quirke describes a dip in the south Pacific that reminded her of darker waters.

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Swimming Stories

Marcus O'Dair

Marcus O'Dair describes swimming in Ullswater in the Lake District with his mother.

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Swimming Stories

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie describes a time with friends in Byron Bay, Australia.

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Swimming Stories

Philip Hoare

Philip Hoare describes how he used to avoid the water before overcoming his reticence.

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Meeting the Giants of Jazz

Doc Cheatham

Martin Gayford recalls touring with octogenarian trumpeter Doc Cheatham.

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Meeting the Giants of Jazz

Marian McPartland

Martin Gayford recalls his meetings with British-American pianist Marian McPartland.

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Meeting the Giants of Jazz

Ruby Braff

Martin Gayford remembers revealing telephone conversations with cornettist Ruby Braff.

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Meeting the Giants of Jazz

Sonny Rollins

Martin Gayford recalls the lessons that he learnt from meeting saxophonist Sonny Rollins.

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Meeting the Giants of Jazz

Jimmy Rowles

Martin Gayford describes his encounters with pianist Jimmy Rowles.

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