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Free Thinking: Sicily, The London Library, John Hardyng's Chronicle

Sicily, The London Library, John Hardyng's Chronicle

21/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Sicily, The London Library, John Hardyng's Chronicle

Anne McElvoy discusses Sicily. Plus 175 years of the London Library, with Tom Stoppard.

Anne McElvoy considers Sicily as the island's multifaceted history is celebrated at the British Museum. Plus Tom Stoppard talking about 175 years of the London Library.

As Sicily Culture and Conquest opens at The British Museum, Anne McElvoy gathers three experts round the Free Thinking table - the historian of Sicily, John Julius Norwich, Helena Attlee who approaches the island from the point of view of its legendary citrus fruit and Anna Sergi, a criminologist at the University of Essex who explains how Cosa Nostra reflects much of the closed culture of the modern island.
Tom Stoppard drops by to celebrate The London Library at 175 and as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death gathers pace, New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley reveals her latest research on John Hardyng, the English soldier who lived through the Wars of the Roses and wrote a chronicle that may be an important source for the Bard's History plays. 


Presenter: Anne McElvoy

Sicily: culture and conquest runs at the British Museum from 21 April - 14 August 2016

Guests: Helena Attlee: The Land Where Lemons Grow 
 John Julius Norwich: Sicily A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra
 Sarah Peverley: John Hardyng, Chronicle: Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204. Edited by James Simpson and Sarah Peverley
 Anna Sergi
 Tom Stoppard.

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