How a Birmingham boy became best-selling thriller writer, Lee Child, and the creator of one of the literary world's most popular loners. (R)
James Grant grew up in Birmingham when it was a bustling industrial city.
While huge workforces would pour of the factories as men ended their shifts and headed home on bicycles, for children, there wasn't ... Show More
Nov 20
How Aunty Rhonda learnt to cry
<p>Artist, author and Stolen Generations survivor, Rhonda Collard-Spratt, on bush hugs, beehives, emu bumps, and finding peace.</p><p>Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spratt is a Yamatji-Noongar elder and Stolen Generations survivor who grew up on the Carnarvon Native Mission in Western Aust ... Show More
51m 12s
Nov 19
From democracy to dictatorship and back again—how freedom falls and tyranny takes hold
<p>Dr James Loxton on how modern democracies can crumble as authoritarian regimes take hold, but also how freedom and democracy can rise again, from the Americas to Europe and into Asia.</p><p>James grew up in stable Canada, where he spent his summers herding sheep in the middle ... Show More
53m 30s
Aug 2024
Why We Want What Tom Ripley Has
<p>In her 1955 novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Talented-Mr-Ripley-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393332144"><strong>The Talented Mr. Ripley</strong></a>,” Patricia Highsmith introduced readers to the figure of Tom Ripley, an antihero who covets the good life, and achieves it—by s ... Show More
50m 45s
Jan 2025
The Elusive Promise of the First Person
<p>The first person is a narrative style as old as storytelling itself—one that, at its best, allows us to experience the world through another person’s eyes. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz trace how the technique has bee ... Show More
45m 48s
Mar 2023
Robert Durst, un riche héritier devenu tueur en série • Episode 1 sur 2
L’effroyable histoire de Robert Alan Durst nous montre que la richesse n’est définitivement pas source de bonheur. Elle n’efface ni le manque d’amour, ni la perversion, ni le meurtre. Héritier d’une famille ayant fait fortune dans l’immobilier, cet Américain a défrayé les chroniq ... Show More
14m 58s