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1antimuzak
Jan 16, 2015, 2:09 am

Friday 16th January 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Ian McMillan presents a special edition focusing on the language of Hilary Mantel, in which the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist unpicks her unique approach to writing historical fiction.

2antimuzak
Feb 6, 2015, 2:08 am

Friday 6th February 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Ian McMillan's guests on the cabaret of the word include director Simon Godwin, who talks about the appeal of Bernard Shaw's language in Man and Superman. Ian also considers whether grammar makes a good adventure story or allegory.

3antimuzak
Apr 3, 2015, 2:45 am

Friday 3rd April 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Ian McMillan explores the language of bureaucracy with writer and academic Paul Taylor, and poet and artist Heather Phillipson, who reads a new piece specially written for the programme.

4antimuzak
Apr 17, 2015, 2:24 am

Friday 17th April 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of the word, with guests including historian Damien Kempf, whose latest book celebrates the monsters that were used to illustrate medieval manuscripts. Kempf explains why they aroused fear, curiosity and wonder at the time they were drawn, and argues that they have much in common with the monsters we find in contemporary culture.

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