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Free Thinking - Nick Payne & Penny Dreadful

Free Thinking - Nick Payne & Penny Dreadful

FromArts & Ideas


Free Thinking - Nick Payne & Penny Dreadful

FromArts & Ideas

ratings:
Length:
44 minutes
Released:
May 15, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nick Payne talks to Anne McElvoy about his play Incognito and the man who stole Einstein's brain. New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell reviews Sky Atlantic's Penny Dreadful and our fascination with Victorian Gothic. Helen McCarthy and Pauline Neville-Jones discuss female diplomats. Plus another New Generation Thinker, Jules Evans, reports on the Reader Organisation's Conference at the British Library, the recent campaigns against the prison book ban and our relationship with reading.
Released:
May 15, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.