Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Peter then turns to Lawrence's short story, 'The Woman Who Rode Away' (1924), set in rural Mexico, in order to demonstrate how his literatu ... Show More
Oct 2012
Kipling, the Elton John of his age?
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul ... Show More
10m 40s
Feb 2024
S10E2: The Open Road
The time I went "messing about in boats", "Blessed Assurance/ U Did the Work", the story of Socrates, Words of Wisdom from the Bible, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson, and chapter two, "The Open Road", from the Wind in the Willows.
41m 43s