Judith Mackrell chats about The Correspondents
Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Clare Hollingworth, and Helen Kirkpatrick all were foreign correspondents on the front lines of World War Two. Mackrell brings them to life and discusses what it was like to be a female journalist at the time, exploring the women's backg…
EXTRA - Trailblazing women ‘going with the boys’ in WW2
The histories of World War Two were largely written by men, because they were almost exclusively the ones who experienced it at the front lines.
But a handful of remarkable women defied official bans, and went to the battlefields as war reporters.
In this extra edition of BFBS Sitrep we hear at len…
Christmas Cracker - The Nutcracker
Our third Christmas Cracker! Seeing a performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker, is, for many people, as much a part of Christmas as tinsel, turkey and a tree. It premiered 120 years ago yesterday, in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. As productions around the country get under wa…
After Diaghilev
The ballet writer Gerald Dowler is joined in a special episode of Voices of British Ballet by Monica Mason (former Royal Ballet student, principal dancer and director), Jane Pritchard (curator of dance, theatre and performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum and former archivist to Rambert Dance)…
Sunday Supplement highlights from the year so far
Vaughan Roderick presents the highlights of the past few months. Alun Davies MS discusses the effect of welfare changes on his Blaenau Gwent constituents; Shereen Williams and Matt Kilcoyne have different views on the new electoral boundaries' names for the next Senedd election; Peter Kellner and P…
Ep 29: Romance For Cynics & Women's Prize For Non-Fiction Longlist
This week, Joseph and Amanda tackle romance. But this is romance with a twist, no tropes or formulas, just good writing that even the most hard-hearted cynic can enjoy. And before that, as Prize season is upon us, they dish the latest on prestigious longlists, and top and tail the episode with curr…
CHARLIE HATES THIS BOOK AND WANTS TO BURN IT
In which Charlie really doesn't like a book.
Books Mentioned:
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
Artists Siblings Visionaries by Judith Mackrell
To Be Young, G…
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: Gwen and Augustus John
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Judith Mackrell, one of Britain’s most eminent biographers, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this ep…
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