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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Shahnaz Ahsan |
Shahnaz Ahsan is Emma's guest to discuss her debut novel, Hashim & Family. They talk about Bangladesh, about the personal and the political, and about the classroom experience that has seared itself into her fiction. |
Emma Smith, Shahnaz Ahsan |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Alex Preston |
Emma Smith chats with Alex Preston about Hertford, his career in finance, bees, and his new historical novel Winchelsea - Emma also teases Alex about the label of Mr Nice Review in Private Eye. |
Emma Smith, Alex Preston |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Louisa Reid |
Louisa Reid's Young Adult novels in verse have been widely praised: join Emma Smith for a discussion of the challenges and responsibilities of writing for teens, as well as Louisa's experience as a teacher. |
Emma Smith, Louisa Reid |
30 Nov 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Claire McGowan |
Memories, genre fiction and writing under a different pen name are all on the agenda for this podcast with Northern Irish crime author Claire McGowan (and her alter ego Eva Woods). |
Emma Smith, Claire McGowan |
17 Nov 2021 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. |
Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams |
10 Mar 2021 |
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Why should we read translated texts? |
This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work? |
Jane Hiddleston, Laura Lonsdale |
16 Mar 2020 |
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Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy |
Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. |
Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Wallis |
25 Aug 2017 |
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Women and the 19th Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel |
Seminar presented by Professor Marilyn Booth at the Middle East Centre on 26th February 2016. |
Marilyn Booth |
04 Mar 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
To the Lighthouse |
Laura Salisbury, Sowon Park (English), give a talk about Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. The chair is Ben Morgan (MML). Part of the Fiction and Other Minds OCCT Strand. |
Sowon Park, Ben Morgan, Laura Sailsbury |
09 Feb 2015 |
