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Oscar Nominations, Steve McQueen, Slavery Narratives
Director Steve McQueen talks to Matthew Sweet talks about his new film 12 Years a Slave.
Girls, Daniel Alarcon, The Constitution
Presented by Samira Ahmed. With the TV series Girls, Daniel Alarcon and the constitution.
TS Eliot Prize, Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia
Sin茅ad Morrissey on winning the TS Eliot poetry prize; Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia.
Landmark: George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England
Philip Dodd and guests discuss George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England.
Breaking Free: Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Matthew Sweet discuss Musil's The Man Without Qualities
European Cities on the Brink of War
AS Byatt, Alexandra Harris, Neil Brand and Philipp Blom on culture in Europe pre-WWI.
Penny Woolcock—2013 Festival
Director Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about working in opera and film.
Whose Strife Is It Anyway?—2013 Festival
Who has the right to depict the experiences of the powerless? Rana Mitter chairs a debate.
What's Eating You?—2013 Festival
Authors Lionel Shriver and Val Curtis ask if we are too obsessed with food and body image.
Are Audiences Killing Culture?—2013 Festival
Matthew Sweet presents a debate asking if the arts are leading or following public taste.
