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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

4: The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French

Charles Aznavour's genius in five songs. 4: The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French.

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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

5: They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan

Charles Aznavour's astonishing career in five songs. 5: They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan.

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Journeys to the Grave

Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Naomi Alderman on Mary Wollstonecraft

Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy

Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath

Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes

Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence

Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Black Country Secrets

Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley

Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.

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Black Country Secrets

Emma Purshouse on St Bart’s Church, Wednesbury.

Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.

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Black Country Secrets

Brendan Hawthorne on Toll End Road, Tipton

Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.

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Black Country Secrets

R.M. Francis on Wren’s Nest, Dudley

Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.

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Black Country Secrets

Roy McFarlane on Bilston

Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.

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Another Northern Ireland

Traybakes

Author Jan Carson on the women who kept her church supplied with tea and traybakes

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Another Northern Ireland

Searching with Shorelines

Poet Gail McConnell on the inspiration of the sea in Louis MacNeice's work and her own.

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Another Northern Ireland

The Art of Staying

Poet Míchéal McCann navigates the careful etiquette of a rural Northern Irish wake.

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Another Northern Ireland

Chalk on the Wall

Writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her hometown to find a radical history.

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Another Northern Ireland

Euphoria

Novelist Glenn Patterson on Belfast's hairdressers and clothes shops during the Troubles.

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Another Northern Ireland

1. Susannah Dickey: Two Pills

Poet and novelist Susannah Dickey assumes a new identity at a local pharmacy.

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Another Northern Ireland

2. Nandi Jola: Neither Here Nor There

Nandi Jola finds some surprising connections between Africa and Northern Ireland.

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Another Northern Ireland

3. Nick Laird: Animal Life

Nick Laird wonders if his children are missing out on the rural upbringing he enjoyed.

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Another Northern Ireland

4. Darran Anderson: Map Making

Darran Anderson draws an alternative map of Ulster for his young son.

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Another Northern Ireland

5. Bernie McGill: Our Art

During the Troubles, Bernie McGill was often told to be careful about what she said.

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Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

William Styron

Should a white man write about a black revolutionary?

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Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Amiri Baraka

How poet and playwright Amiri Baraka cancelled himself in a single public appearance.

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Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Norman Mailer

Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.

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