Tag: Arts & Ideas
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Listen: https://ift.tt/qNiQ5tL From an impoverished neighbourhood in South London, Charlie Chaplin became one of the most significant figures in the development of cinema. More recently, TV writers like Sophie Willan… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/lDTIS68 From undercover field operatives to online anonymity, via lives led in the closet and large scale infidelity, Matthew Sweet discusses the what can prompt people to lead double… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/AV7jZRB From economics to dreams: Anne McElvoy and guests consider the value of irrationality. How often is emotion, instinct and unsound thinking behind the decisions taken by governments, financial… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/gO4o8Lb Journalists Peter Hitchens and Oliver Kamm, radio presenter and comedian Ellis James, languages expert Ross Perlin, Diana Sutton director of The Bell Foundation and podcaster and academic Reetika… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/2cr6L1s Matthew Sweet with art critic TJ Clark, who has written about the importance of repeated viewing for appreciating a work of art; philosopher and film historian Lucy Bolton,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Mbi9EWl “A diary is not only a text: it is a behaviour, a way of life, of which the text is a by-product", says the French theorist Philipe Lejeune.… more ›