I’m back for more BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again today, Saturday, August 1st
My second pandemic-lockdown, recorded-from-home appearance…
My second pandemic-lockdown, recorded-from-home appearance…
A sly, penetrating zing and a frisson of Insta-influencer horror — of the oppression of performative perfection against a marzipan backdrop — renders Austen’s fluff and nonsense deadly serious.
Ciarán Hinds engages in some pointlessly dour Irish brooding at the beach.
So there’s this show on BBC Two in which the gimmick is that all the people in a small Scottish town are roped in to read the shortlisted titles for a prestigious literary award…