Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
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When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on...
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Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums
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From a stunning villa on sunny Capri with Ali Smith to an unlikely temple in the heart of Copenhagen...
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets,...
The News Quiz: Eight Episodes of the Topical BBC Radio 4 Panel Game: Series 88
Jeremy Hardy, Full Cast, C. Bb and Miles Jupp
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In his first series, Miles Jupp is in the chair for eight episodes of BBC Radio 4's ever-popular...
The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears
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Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety,...
Principles of Anatomy According to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius
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Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen is a translation of Johann Guinter's...
Mendelsohn: Expressionist at Heart
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The work of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) is extraordinarily open-minded in its attitude to material...
Michael Graves: Design for Life
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One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century,...
Gainsborough: A Portrait
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his...
Paul Cezanne
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Few artists have exerted such an influence on modern art as Paul Cezanne. Picasso, Braque and...