# Stephen Tennant

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Free Thinking – Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on wild swimming. Jake Arnott on Joe Orton

Matthew Sweet talks to Philip Hoare about literary history and the ocean. Poet Elizabeth Jane Burnett performs snippets from her collection, Swims. Writer Jake Arnott reassesses the film Prick Up Your Ears as it's re-released in cinemas. Continuing the 'Queer Icon' series, Philip Hoare plumps for C…

Happy 115th Birthday Stephen Tennant

Today is the 115th birthday of the socialite, bon vivant, and literary muse Stephen Tennant. The characters Cedric Hampton in Love in a Cold Climate, Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies, and Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited are based on him. The world is a better place because he was in it…

The Whole Shebang Minute 38: I Wish I Had Said That

In Minute 38 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny talk Mandy's sexy goth look of exhaustion, Cecil's more authentically oldster exhaustion, and the need for a snug coat overnight at a summer festival in England, the concept of early trauma being a source of genius, the legendary Whistler/Wilde ex…

FRONTIERS - Phillip Hoare - SEA

Philip Hoare (born 1958, Southampton) is the author of six works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noel Coward: A Biography (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (200…

Philip Hoare on Albert & the Whale

This week Philip Hoare discusses Albert & the Whale his dive into the mind of Albrecht Durer, one of the most well-known yet mysterious of artists. Mysterious because he lived at that fluid time, in the fifteenth century, where history and legend often blend into one. Mysterious because his works f…

[From the archive] Philip Hoare: Albert and the Whale (1520)

In 1520 the artist Albrecht Dürer was on the run from the Plague and on the look-out for distraction when he heard that a huge whale had been beached on the coast of Zeeland. So he set off to see the astonishing creature for himself. In this beautifully-evoked episode the award-winning writing Phi…

Philip Hoare

Philip Hoare is an award-winning writer whose books often describe the lure of the sea, the strange and beautiful creatures that live in it and the inspiration artists have found in its murky depths. His book Leviathan won the Samuel Johnson Prize: it drew on his lifelong obsession with whales, w…

Episode 5 - Defense Support of Civil Authorities

In this episode of Breaking Doctrine, our host, Major Chris Parker discusses how the U.S. Army and National Guard support local, state, and federal authorities during domestic emergencies and natural disasters. Along with offense, defense, and stability operations, Defense Support of Civil Authorit…