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Free Thinking: Book Parts and Difficulty

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Book Parts and Difficulty

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Book Parts and Difficulty

Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

Matthew Sweet looks at book frontispieces, titles and marginalia with Dennis Duncan.

Matthew Sweet looks at book frontispieces, dust jackets, footnotes, indexes and marginalia with Dennis Duncan, and explores a research project investigating difficulty in culture, with Professor Sarah Knight and Dr Hannah Crawforth. 

Plus, New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard discusses hate speech. 

Jeffrey Howard lectures in political theory at University College London and is a 2019 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put academic research on the radio.  

On Difficulty: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/research/research-projects/on-difficulty-in-early-modern-literature 

Producer: Luke Mulhall

Image Credit: Hazel Wilkinson

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