In 1976 leading cultural theorist Raymond Williams published 'Keywords' - his dissection of the words that shape our culture. With the publication of New Keywords - a new take on Williams' project - Philip Dodd and guests looks at three words that feature in both books to reveal how far we have shifted in the intervening period.
Duration:
45 minutes
Programme Details
Philip Dodd talks one of our foremost chroniclers of forgotten English pasts, Philip Hoare. His new book, England's Lost Eden, enters the eerie world of the New Forest Shakers - a Victorian spiritualist sect whose claims to immortality took southern England by storm - and whose utopian dreams are resonant once again.
And Terry Eagleton and Stefan Collini discuss the legacy of Keywords, that polemical glossary of the national conversation by the great public intellectual Raymond Williams. First published nearly thirty years ago, a return to the project has now been published.
Plus a review of West Yorkshire Playhouse's new production of A Doll's House.
Night Waves, live at 9.30pm here on BBC Radio 3.
Presenter: Philip Dodd Producer: Phil Tinline
Additional Information: 1) England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia by Philip Hoare is published by Fourth Estate 2) A Doll's House is at West Yorkshire Playhouse until Saturday 19 March. http://wyplayhouse.com 3) New Keywords is published by Blackwell
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