Patrick Wright
Wednesday 17 October 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd talks to Patrick Wright about his new book charting the history and influence of what in effect was the symbol for so many years of a divided world - the Iron Curtain.
Fanny Hill
Rebecca Night as Fanny Hill in the new BBC Production.
Playlist
The Iron Curtain
Philip Dodd will be talking to Patrick Wright about his new book, Iron Curtain. How did the term become such a powerful metaphor over the last century?
Iron Curtain by Patrick Wright is published by Oxford University Press
Fanny Hill
As recently as 1963 John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, was the subject of a trial for obscenity after it was banned in the United States. Yet Cleland's eighteenth century novel was a best seller in its day. Now it's been adapted by Andrew Davies for BBC4. John Mullan and Julie Peakman will be reviewing and discussing the role of bawdy in the eighteenth century.
Fanny Hill is on BBC4, Monday 22nd October from 9.00pm
Cromwellian Politics
Philip will also be joined by the poet Tom Paulin and writer Blair Worden to talk about the relationship between literature and politics in the seventeenth century and why we are still preoccupied with the time of Cromwell nearly 350 years later.
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England by Blair Woden is published by Oxford University Press
