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Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
For World Soil Day, a celebration of art, research and ideas to revive the earth
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Bureaucracies of the soul satirised in novels. Matthew Sweet's guests include Lea Ypi.
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Lea Ypi and Roger Luckhurst join Matthew Sweet to look at novels, dreams and bureaucracy.
Libraries
From Alexandria to mid-Wales, Laurence Scott and guests look at library history.
Libraries
From Alexandria to Mid Wales, Laurence Scott and guests look at library history.
Lorca
As the National Theatre stages The House of Bernarda Alba, Rana Mitter discusses Lorca
Lorca
As the National Theatre stages The House of Bernarda Alba, Rana Mitter discusses Lorca
AS Byatt and The Children's Book
AS Byatt discussed her writing life with Matthew Sweet as she published a novel in 2009
Postwar Germany
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of World War II.
Post-War Germany
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of WW2
