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Jamaican poet James Berry talks about revising the idea of Britishness he has absorbed.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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Jamaican poet James Berry talks about revising the idea of Britishness he has absorbed.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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Nadeem Aslam came to Britain from Pakistan at the age of 14. His last novel Maps for Lost Lovers deals with the emotional life of an immigrant family living in a working-class Pakistani community in the north of England. Nadeem explores the emotional ambiguity underpinning his own relationship to Britain.

As an immigrant, writer Nadeem Aslam explores his ambiguous relationship to Britain.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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As an immigrant, writer Nadeem Aslam explores his ambiguous relationship to Britain.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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Eva Hoffman is a Polish Jew who came to Britain in 1992, having spent most of her adult life in the United States. What she found confounded her prejudices of a stodgy, emotionally closed and uncommunicative culture.

But she also found a society in a state of rapid flux, a culture which seemed unsure of the balance to strike between absorbing outside influence and maintaining traditional values. Eva reflects on how we should handle this crisis of confidence.

Eva Hoffman looks at how Britain should balance old values with new and foreign ones.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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Kapka Kassabova is a young poet and novelist who briefly flirted with Britain in the early 1990s when her father brought the family over from Bulgaria.

Thirteen years later, she returned to Britain from New Zealand and has made her home in Edinburgh. She contrasts her impressions formed as a teenager landing in a country where for her peers Bulgaria meant a character from the Wombles with those she has formed as a mature adult.

Kapka Kassabova contrasts her impresssions of the UK as a teenager and later as an adult.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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Kapka Kassabova is a young poet and novelist who briefly flirted with Britain in the early 1990s when her father brought the family over from Bulgaria.

Kapka Kassabova contrasts her impresssions of the UK as a teenager and later as an adult.

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

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Episode	First Broadcast	Comments
01	20080211	Jamaican poet James Berry talks about revising the idea of Britishness he has absorbed. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
01	20080818	Jamaican poet James Berry talks about revising the idea of Britishness he has absorbed. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
02	20080212	Nadeem Aslam came to Britain from Pakistan at the age of 14. His last novel Maps for Lost Lovers deals with the emotional life of an immigrant family living in a working-class Pakistani community in the north of England. Nadeem explores the emotional ambiguity underpinning his own relationship to Britain. As an immigrant, writer Nadeem Aslam explores his ambiguous relationship to Britain. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
02	20080819	Nadeem Aslam came to Britain from Pakistan at the age of 14. His last novel Maps for Lost Lovers deals with the emotional life of an immigrant family living in a working-class Pakistani community in the north of England. Nadeem explores the emotional ambiguity underpinning his own relationship to Britain. As an immigrant, writer Nadeem Aslam explores his ambiguous relationship to Britain. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
03	20080820	Eva Hoffman is a Polish Jew who came to Britain in 1992, having spent most of her adult life in the United States. What she found confounded her prejudices of a stodgy, emotionally closed and uncommunicative culture. But she also found a society in a state of rapid flux, a culture which seemed unsure of the balance to strike between absorbing outside influence and maintaining traditional values. Eva reflects on how we should handle this crisis of confidence. Eva Hoffman looks at how Britain should balance old values with new and foreign ones. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
04	20080214	Kapka Kassabova is a young poet and novelist who briefly flirted with Britain in the early 1990s when her father brought the family over from Bulgaria. Thirteen years later, she returned to Britain from New Zealand and has made her home in Edinburgh. She contrasts her impressions formed as a teenager landing in a country where for her peers Bulgaria meant a character from the Wombles with those she has formed as a mature adult. Kapka Kassabova contrasts her impresssions of the UK as a teenager and later as an adult. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
04	20080821	Kapka Kassabova is a young poet and novelist who briefly flirted with Britain in the early 1990s when her father brought the family over from Bulgaria. Thirteen years later, she returned to Britain from New Zealand and has made her home in Edinburgh. She contrasts her impressions formed as a teenager landing in a country where for her peers Bulgaria meant a character from the Wombles with those she has formed as a mature adult. Kapka Kassabova contrasts her impresssions of the UK as a teenager and later as an adult. Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.