1antimuzak
Wednesday 12th July 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Oxford Philosophy.
Chris Harding discusses Oxford philosophy, a key part of post-war British culture, with David Edmonds, Rachael Wiseman, Nikhil Krishnan and MW Rowe.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Oxford Philosophy.
Chris Harding discusses Oxford philosophy, a key part of post-war British culture, with David Edmonds, Rachael Wiseman, Nikhil Krishnan and MW Rowe.
2antimuzak
Tuesday 1st August 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:15 to 22:00 (45 minutes long)
The Wife of Bath.
Chaucer's widow and cloth maker is one of three given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers including Zadie Smith, Patience Agbabi, and Caroline Bergvall. Her guests include Marion Turner, author of a new book about the Wife of Bath.
Time: 21:15 to 22:00 (45 minutes long)
The Wife of Bath.
Chaucer's widow and cloth maker is one of three given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers including Zadie Smith, Patience Agbabi, and Caroline Bergvall. Her guests include Marion Turner, author of a new book about the Wife of Bath.
3antimuzak
Friday 4th August 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
ETA Hoffmann.
ETA Hoffmann, the German author of horror and fantasy, published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the ballet Coppélia, and the Nutcracker. Anne McElvoy marks 200 years since his death, gathering together literary and musical scholars Joanna Neilly, Keith Chapin and Tom Smith to look at his legacy.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
ETA Hoffmann.
ETA Hoffmann, the German author of horror and fantasy, published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the ballet Coppélia, and the Nutcracker. Anne McElvoy marks 200 years since his death, gathering together literary and musical scholars Joanna Neilly, Keith Chapin and Tom Smith to look at his legacy.
4antimuzak
Tuesday 26th September 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Barry Miller and Marghanita Laski.
Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen join Matthew Sweet to look back at Betty Miller and her literary circle, as her novel Farewell Leicester Square is republished.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Barry Miller and Marghanita Laski.
Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen join Matthew Sweet to look back at Betty Miller and her literary circle, as her novel Farewell Leicester Square is republished.
5antimuzak
Thursday 28th September 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Hobbes and New Leviathans.
The philosopher John Gray thinks that Thomas Hobbes' bleak vision of the human condition might help us understand the recent disappointments of progressive politics and the failures of liberal democracies. Anne McElvoy talks to him about this theory and to journalist and author of Politics: A Survivors Guide, Rafael Behr and Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Hobbes and New Leviathans.
The philosopher John Gray thinks that Thomas Hobbes' bleak vision of the human condition might help us understand the recent disappointments of progressive politics and the failures of liberal democracies. Anne McElvoy talks to him about this theory and to journalist and author of Politics: A Survivors Guide, Rafael Behr and Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford.
6antimuzak
Thursday 19th October 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Valis and Philip K Dick.
Matthew Sweet leads a discussion on American science fiction writer Philip K Dick (1928-82), with particular attention to his 1981 novel Valis, a book that draws heavily on a series of revelatory hallucinations that Dick experienced in 1974, radically altering his view of belief, time and history. Matthew is joined by guests including Roger Luckhurst and Sarah Dillon.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Valis and Philip K Dick.
Matthew Sweet leads a discussion on American science fiction writer Philip K Dick (1928-82), with particular attention to his 1981 novel Valis, a book that draws heavily on a series of revelatory hallucinations that Dick experienced in 1974, radically altering his view of belief, time and history. Matthew is joined by guests including Roger Luckhurst and Sarah Dillon.
7antimuzak
Wednesday 8th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare as Inspiration.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Preti Taneja, Iain Smith and Andrew Dickson to discuss films, art and literature across the centuries, inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare as Inspiration.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Preti Taneja, Iain Smith and Andrew Dickson to discuss films, art and literature across the centuries, inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare.
8antimuzak
Thursday 16th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
A miserable child and a summer festival are at the heart of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the short work first published in 1973. Matthew Sweet discusses Ursula Le Guin's philosophical offering with guests including the authors Una McCormack and Naomi Alderman.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
A miserable child and a summer festival are at the heart of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the short work first published in 1973. Matthew Sweet discusses Ursula Le Guin's philosophical offering with guests including the authors Una McCormack and Naomi Alderman.
9antimuzak
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Postwar Germany.
Anne McElvoy talks to Frank Trentmann, author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022, which focuses on reinvention and the moral struggles at the heart of postwar Germany.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Postwar Germany.
Anne McElvoy talks to Frank Trentmann, author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022, which focuses on reinvention and the moral struggles at the heart of postwar Germany.
10antimuzak
Thursday 23rd November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
AS Byatt: The Children's Book.
The perfect childhood and the failure of utopian experiments in living in Edwardian England were explored by AS Byatt in her 2009 novel The Children's Book. In this conversation with Matthew Sweet recorded in that year, they discuss her writing life, mythologising childhood and her meetings with Iris Murdoch, about whom she wrote two critical studies.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
AS Byatt: The Children's Book.
The perfect childhood and the failure of utopian experiments in living in Edwardian England were explored by AS Byatt in her 2009 novel The Children's Book. In this conversation with Matthew Sweet recorded in that year, they discuss her writing life, mythologising childhood and her meetings with Iris Murdoch, about whom she wrote two critical studies.
11antimuzak
Tuesday 28th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Lorca.
Rana Mitter looks at the life and writing of Spanish playwright Lorca, focusing on his last play - The House of Bernada Alba, finished two months before his assassination in 1936.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Lorca.
Rana Mitter looks at the life and writing of Spanish playwright Lorca, focusing on his last play - The House of Bernada Alba, finished two months before his assassination in 1936.
12antimuzak
Thursday 30th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens.
The Palace of Dreams is a novel set in the Ottoman Empire but used by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare to reflect on the totalitarian state. Lea Ypi has been reading the novel which was banned two weeks after publication in 1981, but it had already sold out. Matthew Sweet looks at this and other examples of fiction exploring dreams, power and bureaucracy from Kafka to Dickens and Gospodinov. This Bulgarian novelist won the 2023 International Booker prize for his novel Time Shelter, which New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova has been reading.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens.
The Palace of Dreams is a novel set in the Ottoman Empire but used by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare to reflect on the totalitarian state. Lea Ypi has been reading the novel which was banned two weeks after publication in 1981, but it had already sold out. Matthew Sweet looks at this and other examples of fiction exploring dreams, power and bureaucracy from Kafka to Dickens and Gospodinov. This Bulgarian novelist won the 2023 International Booker prize for his novel Time Shelter, which New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova has been reading.
13antimuzak
Thursday 7th December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
JG Ballard: Crash.
The controversial 1973 novel by JG Ballard about car crash fetishists was, according to its author, 'a total metaphor for man's life in today's society'. Matthew Sweet is joined by author Iain Sinclair, film critic Muriel Zagha and Mark Blacklock, editor of Ballard's Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
JG Ballard: Crash.
The controversial 1973 novel by JG Ballard about car crash fetishists was, according to its author, 'a total metaphor for man's life in today's society'. Matthew Sweet is joined by author Iain Sinclair, film critic Muriel Zagha and Mark Blacklock, editor of Ballard's Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007.
14antimuzak
Tuesday 12th December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Life of Objects.
The 'thingness' of things is under discussion, as academics with different approaches to studying objects come together to look at how their work helps us think about the world we live in. The conversation covers 18th-century novels, the philosophy of Marx, Heidegger and the ecological insights of Anna Tsing. Lisa Mullen hosts and her guests are Timothy Morton, Rachele Dini, Steven Connor and Caroline Edwards.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Life of Objects.
The 'thingness' of things is under discussion, as academics with different approaches to studying objects come together to look at how their work helps us think about the world we live in. The conversation covers 18th-century novels, the philosophy of Marx, Heidegger and the ecological insights of Anna Tsing. Lisa Mullen hosts and her guests are Timothy Morton, Rachele Dini, Steven Connor and Caroline Edwards.
15antimuzak
Wednesday 13th December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Margaret Cavendish.
Nandini Das looks at the life, work and influence of Margaret Cavendish with Doctor Emma Wilkins, Professor Anne Thell , Francesca Peacock and Professor Athene Donald. Das's guests all have particular interests in line with their work on Cavendish.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Margaret Cavendish.
Nandini Das looks at the life, work and influence of Margaret Cavendish with Doctor Emma Wilkins, Professor Anne Thell , Francesca Peacock and Professor Athene Donald. Das's guests all have particular interests in line with their work on Cavendish.
16antimuzak
Tuesday 19th December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Prize Winners 2023.
Rana Mitter talks to the authors Tania Branigan, Halik Kochanski and Nandini Das about their history books, digging in the archives and seeking out interviewees.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Prize Winners 2023.
Rana Mitter talks to the authors Tania Branigan, Halik Kochanski and Nandini Das about their history books, digging in the archives and seeking out interviewees.
17antimuzak
Wednesday 10th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Essay writing.
Rana Mitter and guests look at what makes a good Essay, drawing on examples from the past and present. With author Kirsty Gunn, essayist Chris Arthur, Paul Lay, Senior Editor at Engelsberg Ideas, and Emma Claussen, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge university who studies the work of Montaigne.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Essay writing.
Rana Mitter and guests look at what makes a good Essay, drawing on examples from the past and present. With author Kirsty Gunn, essayist Chris Arthur, Paul Lay, Senior Editor at Engelsberg Ideas, and Emma Claussen, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge university who studies the work of Montaigne.
18antimuzak
Thursday 11th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Octavia Butler: Kindred.
'A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles' is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to 'tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know.' Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist - and long time friend of Octavia Butler.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Octavia Butler: Kindred.
'A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles' is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to 'tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know.' Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist - and long time friend of Octavia Butler.
19antimuzak
Wednesday 17th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare's Women.
Anne McElvoy discusses with drama critic Hailey Bachrach the women in Shakespeare's life and how the writer used the female characters in his plays in deliberate and consistent ways. Plus, Emma Whipday expands upon the topic with her play- Shakespeare's Sister, which focuses on a reimagining of his sister Joan as the playwright.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare's Women.
Anne McElvoy discusses with drama critic Hailey Bachrach the women in Shakespeare's life and how the writer used the female characters in his plays in deliberate and consistent ways. Plus, Emma Whipday expands upon the topic with her play- Shakespeare's Sister, which focuses on a reimagining of his sister Joan as the playwright.
20antimuzak
Thursday 18th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
What is Normal?
Neurodiversity, madness and disability are at the centre of the work being undertaken by three academics who join Matthew Sweet to look at the history of ideas about 'normality'. Dr Robert Chapman is Assistant Professor of Critical Neurodiversity Studies at Durham University and author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. Dr Louise Creechan is also at Durham University and is working on a book about literacy in the nineteenth century. Dr Sarah Chaney researches the history of emotions at Queen Mary University of London and is the author of Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist).
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
What is Normal?
Neurodiversity, madness and disability are at the centre of the work being undertaken by three academics who join Matthew Sweet to look at the history of ideas about 'normality'. Dr Robert Chapman is Assistant Professor of Critical Neurodiversity Studies at Durham University and author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. Dr Louise Creechan is also at Durham University and is working on a book about literacy in the nineteenth century. Dr Sarah Chaney researches the history of emotions at Queen Mary University of London and is the author of Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist).
21antimuzak
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Heidegger and Anti-Semitism.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss German philosopher Martin Heidegger's relationship with Nazism and how far his views extended into his thought.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Heidegger and Anti-Semitism.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss German philosopher Martin Heidegger's relationship with Nazism and how far his views extended into his thought.
22antimuzak
Wednesday 24th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Kyoto School.
Chris Harding discusses how Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani studies western philosophy under Martin Heidegger, becoming one of the leading figures of the Kyoto school. Chris focuses on the schools aim to read Japanese intellectual tradition through the lens of European philosophy and vice versa.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Kyoto School.
Chris Harding discusses how Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani studies western philosophy under Martin Heidegger, becoming one of the leading figures of the Kyoto school. Chris focuses on the schools aim to read Japanese intellectual tradition through the lens of European philosophy and vice versa.
23antimuzak
Thursday 25th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Holocaust History.
Historians continue to unearth documents, interpret new records accounts and reinterpret old ones in their light. In doing so they expand our understanding of unfolding antisemitism and the holocaust. Anne McElvoy speaks to Barbara Warnock the senior curator of the Wiener Holocaust Library, the world's oldest holocaust research institution as it marks its 90th anniversary this year. Rachel Pistol explores the emerging stories of the Jewish men interned in Britain during the Second World War. Liza Weber discusses what we can learn from the Jewish art looted by the Nazis. And Daniel Lee tells us about the lives of Jewish resisters Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, whose courage will be honoured in Paris this month.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Holocaust History.
Historians continue to unearth documents, interpret new records accounts and reinterpret old ones in their light. In doing so they expand our understanding of unfolding antisemitism and the holocaust. Anne McElvoy speaks to Barbara Warnock the senior curator of the Wiener Holocaust Library, the world's oldest holocaust research institution as it marks its 90th anniversary this year. Rachel Pistol explores the emerging stories of the Jewish men interned in Britain during the Second World War. Liza Weber discusses what we can learn from the Jewish art looted by the Nazis. And Daniel Lee tells us about the lives of Jewish resisters Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, whose courage will be honoured in Paris this month.
24antimuzak
Tuesday 13th February 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871).
Matthew Sweet is joined by Christine Yao, Joe Cain and Ruth Mace from the University College in London, who have been re-reading Darwin's work- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. They explore his arguments about the human species, sex and race, while looking at the racial language used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871).
Matthew Sweet is joined by Christine Yao, Joe Cain and Ruth Mace from the University College in London, who have been re-reading Darwin's work- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. They explore his arguments about the human species, sex and race, while looking at the racial language used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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