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Granada: The Light of Andalucía, with Steven Nightingale and Robert Irwin
Granada: The Light of Andalucía, with Steven Nightingale and Robert Irwin
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46 minutes
Released:
Jul 16, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
Steven Nightingale's Granada: The Light of Andalucía (Nicholas Brealey) is a rhapsodic celebration of one of Spain's most beautiful and fascinating cities, and his adoptive home. From the extraordinary flourishing of Granada under the Moors, when it became the effective cultural and philosophical capital of the known world, through the horrific ethnic cleansing of the 15th and 16th centuries, to the tragedy of Civil War and one of the city's most famous sons Federico GarcÍa Lorca in the 20th century, Nightingale's account is as captivating and digressive as the tangled streets of El Albayzín itself. Steven Nightingale was in conversation with the historian of Arabic literature Robert Irwin, whose study of Granada's most famous landmark, The Alhambra, is published by Profile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jul 16, 2015
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Alhambra vs the Parthenon: In one of the first events held at the Bookshop, Mary Beard and Robert Irwin squared up to each other to debate the relative greatness of two magnificent structures, the Alhambra and the Parthenon. Through their speeches and responses to audience... by London Review Bookshop Podcast