Was Cleopatra a seductress or a great politician? Shakespeare scholar Dr Islam Issa's exploration of why history and literature have recorded two very different Cleopatras. Show more
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Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost
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Professor John Carey, Dr Mandy Green and New Generation Thinkers Islam Issa and Joe Moshenska join presenter Philip Dodd to discuss Milton's poem Paradise Lost. Show more
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Revenge: My Cousin Rachel, Natalie Haynes, Islam Issa
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Matthew Sweet discusses the film My Cousin Rachel and explores revenge in Shakespeare and Greek drama with New Generation Thinker Islam Issa and author Natalie Haynes. Show more
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Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
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Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra examined by New Generation Thinker Islam Issa + Anne McElvoy talks to playwright Ella Hickson. Show more
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Tokyo Idols and Urban life
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Novelist Tomoyuki Hoshino, photographer Suzanne Mooney, writer/photographer Mariko Nagai and filmmaker Kyoko Miyake look at life in the city for the Heisei generations. Show more
Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, Rana Mitter and his guests Anne Appelbaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Syemour assess the legacy of Marxism today. Show more