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Start the Week

Votes for Women

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Andrew Marr discusses the Suffragettes and political protest with historian Jane Robinson, political theorist Christopher Finlay, artist Peter Kennard and poet Fiona Sampson. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Robinson
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Finlay
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Kennard
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Front Row

Wild, TS Eliot poetry prize, Oppenheimer at the RSC and Barbara Hannigan

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Kirsty Lang presents a review of Wild, the announcement of the TS Eliot poetry prize winner, Oppenheimer at the Royal Shakespeare Company and soprano Barbara Hannigan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny McCartney
Interviewed Guest:
Angus Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Morton-Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Barbara Hannigan
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Book of the Week

In Search of Mary Shelley

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

The 16-year-old Mary elopes with Percy Bysshe Shelley - a constantly challenging relationship lived on the move across Britain and Europe. Show more

Book of the Week

In Search of Mary Shelley

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Mary continues to live abroad with the poet Shelley, but their passion seems to be fading and constant pregnancies are taking their toll - with Shelley unsympathetic. Show more

Book of the Week

In Search of Mary Shelley

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Mary Shelley is born into a world of romantic poetry and scientific experiment and is soon exposed to some of the most interesting minds of her generation. Show more

Book of the Week

In Search of Mary Shelley

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

With Percy Bysshe Shelley dead, Mary seems bereft but, after the publication of Frankenstein, her literary renown keeps growing and she comes into her own. Show more

Book of the Week

In Search of Mary Shelley

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley travel to Europe and strike up a bond with Lord Byron. In regular gatherings, they challenge each other to write ghost stories. Show more

Woman's Hour

Viewing porn in public spaces - is it illegal? Can poetry alleviate suffering? And 'Simple' seared tuna.

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Viewing porn in public spaces - is it illegal? Our Craft Prize in partnership with the V&A and the Crafts Council. Plus, can poetry alleviate suffering? And 'simple' seared tuna. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Rosy Greenlees
Interviewed Guest:
Clare McGlynn
Interviewed Guest:
Anouchka Grose
Interviewed Guest:
Diana Henry
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Lewis
Presenter:
Jenni Murray

Free Thinking

Frankenstein and AI now

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston join Matthew Sweet to discuss Mary Shelley's story in film, fiction and the view of AI scientists now. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson
Interviewed Guest:
Daisy Hay
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Frayling

Free Thinking

Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Neil Bartlett discusses Victorian cross-dressing performer Ernest Boulton with Matthew Sweet, and Thomas Thwaites explains why he decided to try to live as a goat. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Neil Bartlett
Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Thomas Thwaites
Interviewed Guest:
Colin Gale
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Wise
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson

Free Thinking

Thom Gunn's Poetry, Michael Cunningham

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Samira Ahmed is joined by poets Paul Farley, Fiona Sampson and Clive Wilmer to discuss the writing of Thom Gunn. Plus novelist Michael Cunningham and Turkish-Armenian relations. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Farley
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson
Interviewed Guest:
Clive Wilmer
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Cunningham
Interviewed Guest:
Charlie Laderman
Interviewed Guest:
Umit Ungor
Producer:
Zahid Warley