# Charles Nicholl

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Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years

Charles Nicholl Arthur Rimbaud turned French poetry on its head in his late teens. He took the Baudelairean medium of the prose poem, injected adolescent rage, slang and a remarkable inventiveness with language to create his visionary masterpiece A Season in Hell and a shimmering collection of …

Rewriting the Rules of Online Retail

How Charles Nicholls Is Rewriting the Rules of Online Retail 🎯Thrilled to welcome Charles Nicholls, CEO of SimplicityDX, to the Conzia Podcast! Charles Nicholls is a seasoned founder and retail tech visionary who’s reshaping how brands approach eCommerce. In this episode, we dive into what he’…

Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe

Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it? We're stepping out of the sun and into the shadows on Not Just the Tudors, as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates Tudor True Crime; a selection of history’s most notorious murders and murderers. Today Suzannah is joined by Charles Nicholl …

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard speaks to Take Four Books about his new novel The School Of Night and together with presenter James Crawford they explore its connections to three other texts. The School of Night follows the character of Kristian Hadeland, a young photography student who's seething with ambitio…

Narrative Poems: 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

'Hero and Leander' was published in 1598, and anyone who came across it in a stationer’s shop in Elizabethan London would have known that its author was dead, killed in a brawl in Deptford in 1593. Christopher Marlowe’s sensational life as playwright and spy is matched by the wit, sophistication an…

Shakespeare’s City

When Thomas Platter, a Swiss tourist, went to see ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Globe Theatre in 1599, it wasn’t Shakespeare’s language that attracted his attention but the ready availability of refreshments and the high quality of the players’ clothes. The revolution in playmaking that he witnessed on th…

London Revisited: Shakespeare’s City

When Thomas Platter, a Swiss tourist, went to see ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Globe Theatre in 1599, it wasn’t Shakespeare’s language that attracted his attention but the ready availability of refreshments and the high quality of the players’ clothes. The revolution in playmaking that he witnessed on th…

A Most Magickal Encounter

Writer Tim Dee is trying to make a most extraordinary Zoom Call that will transport him across the centuries to have a most magical encounter with a scholarly looking guy with a white beard who is his namesake. Dr John Dee was astronomer and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I. He was a wizardly necr…

The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

This month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates four of history’s most notorious murders and brutal crimes.In this first episode, she’s joined by Charles Nicholl to dig deeper into the mystery of the 1593 murder of the brilliant and controversial playwright Christopher M…

Tudor True Crime

The true-crime genre - stories of actual murders and other crimes that are then fictionalised - is not a new phenomenon. More than four centuries ago, a series of plays based on real life cases appeared on the London stage. It was a short-lived craze generated by the insatiable early modern appetit…