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Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - The little dictators The third lecture in the series asked why so many...
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Tudor Health Reform: The Politics of Health Reform from a Medieval Perspective Is the NHS medieval? Is this an insulting claim to...
Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?' Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...