On Sunday 28th May, Dr Sarah Dillon will be presenting a special edition of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme – Writing and Rewriting the Past – live at the Hay Festival, as part of the BBC’s line-up for the 2017 event. The programme will bring together the authors of three historical novels to discuss the […]
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BBC New Generation Thinker Dr Sarah Dillon at the Proms
Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]
Continue ReadingDr 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.
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Investigates the Story Behind the Story of Literature’s Great Works – BBC Radio 3
Faculty of English academic Dr Sarah Dillon is to become a literary detective in a new Sunday Feature series on BBC Radio 3 exploring great works of literature and how they came to be written. The series, called Literary Pursuits, begins this Sunday (10th January) with a look at the story behind Great Expectations by […]
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