Episodes
Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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Poems Of An Exile | 20010812 | " Christopher Cook examines what exile - one of this year's Proms themes - has meant to writers and artists, from Biblical and Classical times to the present day. Rabbi Neuberger offers her thoughts on the Jewish diaspora. Oliver Taplin investigates Ovid's `Poems of an Exile'. Nicholas Mann uncovers Petrarch's views on statehood. Valentine Cunningham looks at the travels of a generation of British Romantics, for whom self-imposed exile was often an extension of the grand tour. And Homi Bhaba explores what contemporary writers make of exile in a world increasingly linked by the internet. " |
Poems Of An Exile | 20010812 | Christopher Cook examines what exile - one of this year's Proms themes - has meant to writers and artists, from Biblical and Classical times to the present day. Rabbi Neuberger offers her thoughts on the Jewish diaspora. Oliver Taplin investigates Ovid's `Poems of an Exile'. Nicholas Mann uncovers Petrarch's views on statehood. Valentine Cunningham looks at the travels of a generation of British Romantics, for whom self-imposed exile was often an extension of the grand tour. And Homi Bhaba explores what contemporary writers make of exile in a world increasingly linked by the internet. |
Poems Of An Exile | 20010812 | 'Christopher Cook examines what exile - one of this year's Proms themes - has meant to writers and artists, from Biblical and Classical times to the present day. Rabbi Neuberger offers her thoughts on the Jewish diaspora. Oliver Taplin investigates Ovid's `Poems of an Exile'. Nicholas Mann uncovers Petrarch's views on statehood. Valentine Cunningham looks at the travels of a generation of British Romantics, for whom self-imposed exile was often an extension of the grand tour. And Homi Bhaba explores what contemporary writers make of exile in a world increasingly linked by the internet.' |