Where the University of Catania houses the Humanities department (and its library)
Simon Tillotson
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Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
Off to see Nolan’s Odyssey later and unsure whether these will help or hinder my enjoyment 🙂https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01h9vvk
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Ancient Greece
Browse the Ancient Greece era within the In Our Time archive.
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In the back garden of a student house in Bristol (near docks) and no idea what it can be
So many sea shells and I don’t yet know what this larger one is
“Everybody comes to In Our Time in Sheffield this Saturday“ crossedwires.live/podcast/in-o...
In Our Time — Crossed Wires Festival 2026
Radio 4's In Our Time makes its Sheffield debut, with a rare chance to see new host Misha Glenny and guests in action. From its start in 1998 with host Melvyn Bragg, In Our Time has become essential l...
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Wonderful afternoon celebrating the career of In Our Time royalty Judith Hawley. Anyone not heard the gin craze episode? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Closing a wonderful weekend with family fans of Belle and Sebastian first in Glasgow then nearer home 🦊❄️
Catching up with Belle and Sebastian at Kelvingrove Bandstand, c30 years since I picked Dog on Wheels out of the surplus promo CDs box at GLR and played it to death
Available now for download globally: The Welsh Marches www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... recorded on a sweltering day at Hay last month
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Welsh Marches
How the Norman invasion of Britain created semi-independent warlord territories in Wales.
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Off air now: me From Dark Matter in 2015 to Vigée Le Brun today and Casablanca next season en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... I’d best put the kettle on 🙂
Vigée Le Brun‘s self portrait in a straw hat alongside the Rubens ‘straw hat’ portrait that inspired her, at the National Gallery in London www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Delighted to find Vigée Le Brun’s Countess Golovina at the Courtauld, so close to her self portrait at the National Gallery www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Vigée Le Brun at the National Gallery in London alongside the Rubens that inspired her self portrait with a straw hat www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Outstanding episode of BBCRadio4 BBCInOurTime — on a decisive period in Greek history often overshadowed by events & personalities before & after. Misha Glenny talks to Paul Cartledge, Leah Lazar, Polly Low www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Delian League
The ancient alliance initially formed to protect Greek city states from the Persian Empire
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Listen out for Pick of the Week this weekend to see what they feature on Machado de Assis! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... IOT here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Jeffrey Boakye
Jeffrey Boakye presents a weekly selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.
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Ominously/coincidentally my old studio tea mug has just fallen from a shelf (my last recording this week) ☕️🫖
The Levellers: available now globally for download by the poorest he and the greatest he and everyone in between www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Levellers
The political movement during the English Civil War committed to a new idea of equality.
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🎙️ Tune in *today* to hear our very own Prof. Polly Low on ‘In Our Time’, chatting to Misha Glenny about The Delian League. 👩🏫 Prof. Low appears as an expert panelist alongside Dr Leah Lazar (Manchester) and Prof. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge). 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Coming up at 9am in UK on BBC Sounds and globally on BBC.com - The Delian League (how Athens came to control what was initially a defensive alliance against Persia) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Delian League
The ancient alliance initially formed to protect Greek city states from the Persian Empire
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On an anniversary of Waterloo: how Napoleon’s ambitions crumbled (and the significance of soft ground) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Napoleon's Hundred Days
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
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BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’, recently featured the topic of ‘The Welsh Marches’. The programme was recorded in front of a live audience at the Hay Literary Festival. On the panel were Helen Fulton, Huw Pryce (Bangor University) and Rhun Emlyn (Aberystwyth), with presenter Misha Glenny.
Amused to see that Bras Cubas’s memoirs shot up to 31st place in biographies this week at a well known online store. Might encourage others to write posthumously 🙂
BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' programme, on Machado de Assis. Featuring two REBRAC members, Claire Williams from the University of Oxford and Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação from the University of Cambridge www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Machado de Assis - BBC Sounds
The great Brazilian novelist, whose satires of slave owners transcend time and place.
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Strange link between Machado de Assis and Stéphane Mallarmé - both involved with women‘s fashion magazines printed in Paris: La Dernière Mode - fashionartdaily.blogspot.com/2009/11/la-d... And #InOurTime describes Machado’s involvement here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
La Dernière Mode
La Dernière Mode was a limited edition fashion magazine/art project created by 19th century poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Jonathan Crary expl...
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Fancy learning something new? Listen to Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History and Trinity Hall Fellow, on BBC Radio 4’s 'In Our Time' exploring the Levellers – pioneering campaigners who pushed for social equality and religious tolerance during the 17th century. 👇
Cambridge University History Faculty@camhistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 Clare Jackson, Hon Professor of Early Modern History @cam.ac.uk on BBCRadio4 InOurTime with @tmbejan.bsky.social & @tedvallance.bsky.social. They discuss the Levellers, political radicals who pioneered petitions and pamphlets to reimagine the English constitution. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Available now for download globally: on the Garamantes, ancient people of the once verdant Sahara www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Garamantes
The ancient civilisation which thrived in the Sahara Desert over 2,000 years ago.
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Coming up at 9am in UK on BBC Sounds and globally on bbc.com - Misha Glenny and guests discuss Machado de Assis, ‘the Pele of world literature’ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Machado de Assis
The great Brazilian novelist, whose satires of slave owners transcend time and place.
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This Thursday, be sure to tune your radios/phones/smart speakers to BBC Radio 4 to hear our very own Prof Claire Williams discuss Brazilian writer Machado de Assis with Misha Glenny on the flagship programme, 'In Our Time'! https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/claire-williams-in-our-time
