BBC World Service: Heart & Soul – The Pilgrim Paths of Ireland
Writer Bébhinn Ramsay was 31 when her husband died, leaving her to raise her two young children. Her faith and sense of self were left shaken by the tragedy –…
Documentary
Shakespeare’s Starling
How did Shakespeare’s single starling from Henry IV, Part 1 take down a passenger plane and wreak environmental havoc across America? Zoë Comyns explores how one man’s Shakespeare inspired folly…
Art from the Anthropocene – The Cultural Frontline – BBC World Service
Art from the Anthropocene – The Cultural Frontline BBC World Service Zoë Comyns goes in search of art from the Anthropocene. She meets artists who are all responding to this…
Counting Down BBC World Service
Counting Down – a documentary broadcast the weekend of the historic vote to remove the 8th Amendment. Listen to Counting Down here on the BBC World Service The current laws…
Frankenstein in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Frankenstein in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is 200 years old this year. It was written when Mary Shelley (then Godwin) was just 18. This week on…
Eimear McBride on Samuel Beckett
On this episode of The Book Show Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians) visits The Samuel Beckett Collection in University of Reading. There she…
