In our time
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He who saw the deep
I listen to half a dozen podcasts every week. One of these is from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time, which is hosted by Melvyn Bragg, takes a scholarly subject (from the sciences and arts) every week and discusses it with experts. I learn lots from these podcasts. The recent episode about The Epic of Gilgamesh particularly inspired me. It featured the translator…
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Listening to a podcast of the BBC Radio 4 programme In our time, hosted by the excellent Melvyn Bragg about Foxe’s book of Martyrs first published 1563. This is a book I’d only vaguely heard about. It contains illustrations of Christian martyrs in the act of being executed. My ears pricked up when one of…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 