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Duration: 15 minutes

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

In Karen McCarthy Woolf's drama in couplets, inspired by the Underworld episode in Homer, Odysseus's mother strives to contact her son, who is working a night shift as a cab driver. Show more

Front Row

Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition, Lloyd Dorfman, Karen McCarthy Woolf, John Ashbery

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum; arts benefactor Lloyd Dorfman; poets Karen McCarthy Woolf and the late John Ashbery. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Alun Graves
Interviewed Guest:
Annie Warburton
Interviewed Guest:
Lloyd Dorfman
Interviewed Guest:
John Ashbery
Interviewed Guest:
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Producer:
Harry Parker

Free Thinking

Landmark: The Odyssey

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd to explore translating, rewriting and using Homer's epic work to frame a memoir. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Amit Chaudhuri
Interviewed Guest:
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Mendelsohn
Interviewed Guest:
Emily Wilson
Producer:
Zahid Warley