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BBC Radio 4

Dr Sarah Dillon Discusses SF and Religion on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief

On Monday 13th March, Dr Sarah Dillon will join presenter Robert Beckford on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief to discusses the role of religion in science fiction with Aliette de Bodard, a writer with an interest in the interplay between science fiction and religion, and Roz Kaveney, a writer, poet and critic.

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Dr Sarah Dillon Presents Radio 4 ‘Seeing is Believing’ Mars Documentary

  On Monday 6th March at 11am on BBC Radio 4, Dr Sarah Dillon will present the first in a three part documentary series exploring literary and scientific imaginings of Mars. Seeing is Believing is Episode 1 of We Are the Martians, and will be available to listen again on the BBC iplayer.     […]

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Dr Laura Wright Presents Radio 4’s Word of Mouth

Throughout March and April 2016, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Listen to Michael Rosen and Dr Wright discussing Shakespearean speech with Linguist David Crystal in a clip from the Radio 4 in Four podcast.

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Dr Lucy Allen – Positively Medieval on BBC Radio 4

Dr Lucy Allen presents a new episode of Four Thought, a BBC Radio 4 series of thought-provoking talks in which speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society. In  Positively Medieval, Dr Allen argues that the way in which medieval society is often presented – as indifferent to sexual violence […]

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Dr Mary Newbould on Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’

Dr Mary Newbould recently appeared on Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’ talking about Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy.  Find more information and a recording of the programme here.

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Dr Gavin Alexander on Radio 4

Dr Gavin Alexander appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Sonnet and the Sword on Sunday 11th August 2013. The Sonnet and the Sword looks at Elizabethan courtier poetry, its influence on literature and its context in the wider world.

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Drs Boddy and Hrebeniak on Radio 4

Dr Kasia Boddy and Dr Michael Hrebeniak will appear on “I Wandered Lonely as a Cat: Poetry and Jazz” on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (14 March 2013) at 11.30.

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