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| Adventures In Poetry | ...Duncan Wu presents William Blake's `The Tyger'. With Kathleen Raine, PETER ACKROYD and Michael Horovitz ... |
| Book Programme, The [radio Ulster] | ...William Crawley presents literary reviews, news and interviews. Featuring The Canterbury Tales - A retelling by PETER ACKROYD.... |
| Chatterton - The Allington Solution | ...By PETER ACKROYD.... |
| City Speaks, The | ...Series of short radio dramas based on PETER ACKROYD's specially commissioned short story in which the Virgin Mary makes an appearance in the City of London.... |
| Devil's Architect? | ...Alyn Shipton delves behind the dark theories and occult speculation that surround the churches of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), to reveal the symbolism and imagery at work in his buildings. Hawksmoor has always been a controversial figure. His flamboyant and dramatic buildings were often criticised by his more conservative contemporaries for breaking the rules and transgressing the boundaries of good taste. His unique personal style fused ideas from classical Greece, Rome and Egypt with a very arresting concern with mass and sensory impact. His London churches, especially, are almost modern in appearance and it's only in the last fifty years that the sheer scale of Hawksmoor's genius has come to be fully appreciated. After years of neglect, many of these buildings are now undergoing extensive renovation and restoration. It seems his time has finally arrived, but his work still provokes fierce debate. His churches are now controversial for a darker reason. The writer Iain Sinclair, in his poetic essay Lud Heat, demonstrated mysterious alignments between the Hawksmoor churches: lines of power which set up occult influences across London. He develops the idea of the Hawksmoor churches as centres for dark and malign powers, and draws parallels between the buildings and a series of grisly ritual murders across the east-end. These metaphorical, literary ideas were then given further currency through the novel 'Hawksmoor' by PETER ACKROYD, which expanded on Sinclair's themes. Alyn Shipton explores these modern myths with Iain Sinclair and investigates how the academic establishment view these theories.... |
| Fiery World, The | ...In this Radio 3 special commission, PETER ACKROYD dramatises the life of William Blake.... |
| Hawksmoor | ...Nick Fisher's adaptation of PETER ACKROYD's acclaimed 1985 novel, starring Philip Jackson as both Dyer, the 18th-century architect whose work reflects his obsession with the old religion, and the modern detective Hawksmoor, who is investigating murders that mirror the sacrifices which took place 300 years earlier. With Norman Rodway, Richard Johnson and Miranda Foster. Directed by Janet Whitaker ... |
| House Of Doctor Dee, The | ...by PETER ACKROYD... |
| Loose Ends | ...Guests include Geoffrey Boycott, Joe Swift, Arthur Smith, Albert Jack, Eugene Francis Junior, Bryn Christopher and PETER ACKROYD ... |
| Mystery Of Charles Dickens, The | ...Simon Callow brings Charles Dickens to life in this powerful play written by PETER ACKROYD... |
| Postscript | ...The second of four programmes in which Philip Dodd talks to leading novelists to find out why words and music have become so interwoven. 2: `Sublime Words'. At the beginning of the 20th century, classical music became a touchstone for writers who found in it a means of weaving together disparate themes in their novels. Modern day novelists PETER ACKROYD, Alison Lurie and Rose Tremain are part of this tradition of authors who have used music to colour their work.... |
| Shakespeare And Englishness | ...Catholic dissident or Protestant apologist? Voice of the commons or celebrant of Empire? Around the table are PETER ACKROYD, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Michael Dobson. With contributions from Michael Boyd, Ania Loomba, Richard Wilson, Eamon Duffy, David Dabydeen and David Crystal.... |