G.F. Handel, facsimile the composer's Conducting Score of Messiah (Scolar Press, 1974) Arthur Holroyd, Reassuring 18th-Century Protestants: The Librettist's Intended Message for Handel's 'Messiah' (Quacks Books, 2018)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel's Messiah (Doubleday/Bodley Head, 2024)
Jens Peter Larsen, Handel's Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Adam and Charles Black, 1957)
Richard Luckett, Handel's Messiah: A Celebration (Victor Gollancz, 1992)
Watkins Shaw, A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel's 'Messiah' (Novello and Co, 1965)
Ruth Smith, 'The Achievements of Charles Jennens (1700–1773)' (Music & Letters, 70, 1989)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man behind Handel's 'Messiah' (Handel House Trust/The Gerald Coke Handel Foundation, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Calvin R. Stapert, Handel's Messiah: Comfort for God's People (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010)
Judy Tarling, Handel's Messiah: A Rhetorical Guide (first published 2014; Punnett Press, 2025)
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Donald Burrows Emeritus Professor of Music at the Open University
Ruth Smith Trustee and Council Member of the Handel Institute
And
Larry Zazzo Countertenor, and Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University
G.F. Handel, facsimile the composer's Conducting Score of Messiah (Scolar Press, 1974) Arthur Holroyd, Reassuring 18th-Century Protestants: The Librettist's Intended Message for Handel's 'Messiah' (Quacks Books, 2018)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel's Messiah (Doubleday/Bodley Head, 2024)
Jens Peter Larsen, Handel's Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Adam and Charles Black, 1957)
Richard Luckett, Handel's Messiah: A Celebration (Victor Gollancz, 1992)
Watkins Shaw, A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel's 'Messiah' (Novello and Co, 1965)
Ruth Smith, 'The Achievements of Charles Jennens (1700–1773)' (Music & Letters, 70, 1989)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man behind Handel's 'Messiah' (Handel House Trust/The Gerald Coke Handel Foundation, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Calvin R. Stapert, Handel's Messiah: Comfort for God's People (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010)
Judy Tarling, Handel's Messiah: A Rhetorical Guide (first published 2014; Punnett Press, 2025)
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Frank Cogliano Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh
Mary Vincent Professor of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield
And
Stephen Wilkinson Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Buckingham
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Sebastian Balfour, The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 (Clarendon Press, 1997)
Sebastian Balfour, 'Riot, Regeneration and Reaction: Spain in the Aftermath of the 1898 Disaster' (The Historical journal 38.2, 1995)
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021)
Greg Grandin, America, América: A New History of the New World (Torva, 2025)
Richard Kluger, Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea (Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007)
Robert W. Merry, President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
Walter Nugent, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion (Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2008)
Louis A. Pérez Jr., Cuba Between Empires, 1878–1902 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983)
John Lawrence Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Mary Vincent, Spain, 1833-2002: People and State (Oxford University Press, 2007), especially chapter 3
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Frank Cogliano Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh
Mary Vincent Professor of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield
And
Stephen Wilkinson Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Buckingham
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Sebastian Balfour, The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 (Clarendon Press, 1997)
Sebastian Balfour, 'Riot, Regeneration and Reaction: Spain in the Aftermath of the 1898 Disaster' (The Historical journal 38.2, 1995)
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021)
Greg Grandin, America, América: A New History of the New World (Torva, 2025)
Richard Kluger, Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea (Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007)
Robert W. Merry, President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
Walter Nugent, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion (Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2008)
Louis A. Pérez Jr., Cuba Between Empires, 1878–1902 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983)
John Lawrence Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Mary Vincent, Spain, 1833-2002: People and State (Oxford University Press, 2007), especially chapter 3
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Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:55:22https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tbzgPodcastsThu, 02 Apr 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4SiliconSiliconhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t2v2 With
Kate Hendry Oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey and Bye-Fellow of Queen's College, University of Cambridge
Andrea Sella Professor of Chemistry at University College London
And
Monica Grady Professor Emerita in Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University
Produced by Martha Owen
Reading list:
Christina De La Rocha and Daniel J. Conley, Silica Stories (Springer, 2017)
Bernard Quéguiner, The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean (John Wiley & Sons, 2016)
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Kate Hendry Oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey and Bye-Fellow of Queen's College, University of Cambridge
Andrea Sella Professor of Chemistry at University College London
And
Monica Grady Professor Emerita in Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University
Produced by Martha Owen
Reading list:
Christina De La Rocha and Daniel J. Conley, Silica Stories (Springer, 2017)
Bernard Quéguiner, The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean (John Wiley & Sons, 2016)
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Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:52:50https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t2v2PodcastsThu, 26 Mar 2026 09:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4DadaismDadaismhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sr43 With Dawn Ades Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex
Ruth Hemus Professor of French and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London
And
Stephen Forcer Professor of French at the University of Glasgow
Produced by Martha Owen
Reading list:
Dawn Ades (ed.), The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology (Tate Publishing, 2006)
Hugo Ball (trans. Ann Raimes and ed. John Elderfield), Flight out of Time: A Dada Diary (first published 1927; University of California Press, 1996)
Stephen Forcer, Dada as Text, Thought and Theory (Legenda, 2015)
Ruth Hemus, Dada's Women (Yale University Press, 2009)
David Hopkins, Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Jed Rasula, Destruction was my Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 2015)
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Ruth Hemus Professor of French and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London
And
Stephen Forcer Professor of French at the University of Glasgow
Produced by Martha Owen
Reading list:
Dawn Ades (ed.), The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology (Tate Publishing, 2006)
Hugo Ball (trans. Ann Raimes and ed. John Elderfield), Flight out of Time: A Dada Diary (first published 1927; University of California Press, 1996)
Stephen Forcer, Dada as Text, Thought and Theory (Legenda, 2015)
Ruth Hemus, Dada's Women (Yale University Press, 2009)
David Hopkins, Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Jed Rasula, Destruction was my Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 2015)
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Christa Schleper Professor of Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Vienna
Thorsten Allers Professor of Archaeal Genetics at the University of Nottingham
And
Buzz Baum Group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
John Archibald, One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Buzz Baum, 'I': A Biography of the Biological Self (Allen Lane, forthcoming 2027)
Franklin M. Harold, In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press, 2005)
David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Jan Sapp, Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis (Oxford University Press, 1994)
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Christa Schleper Professor of Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Vienna
Thorsten Allers Professor of Archaeal Genetics at the University of Nottingham
And
Buzz Baum Group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
John Archibald, One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Buzz Baum, 'I': A Biography of the Biological Self (Allen Lane, forthcoming 2027)
Franklin M. Harold, In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press, 2005)
David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Jan Sapp, Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis (Oxford University Press, 1994)
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Joanna Laynesmith Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading
Katherine Lewis Honorary Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lincoln and Research Associate at the University of York
And
David Grummitt Staff Tutor in History at the Open University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Nathen Amin, The House of Beaufort (Amberley Publishing, 2017)
Rachel Delman, 'The Vowesses, the anchoresses, and the aldermen's wives: Lady Margaret Beaufort and the Devout Society of Late Medieval Stamford' (Urban History 49, 2022)
David Grummitt, A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (revised edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
Michael Hicks, The Wars of the Roses (Yale University Press, 2010)
Lauren Johnson, Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)
Michael K. Jones and Malcolm G. Underwood, The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2008), especially the chapter 'Margaret Beaufort's Literate Practice: Service and Self-Inscription'
J.L. Laynesmith, Cecily Duchess of York (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Susan Powell, The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, 1443-1509 (Liverpool University Press, 2022)
Nicola Tallis, Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch (Michael O'Mara, 2019)
Micheline White (ed.), English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 (Ashgate, 2016), especially 'Lady Margaret Beaufort's Translations as Mirrors of Practical Piety' by Brenda M. Hosington
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Joanna Laynesmith Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading
Katherine Lewis Honorary Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lincoln and Research Associate at the University of York
And
David Grummitt Staff Tutor in History at the Open University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Nathen Amin, The House of Beaufort (Amberley Publishing, 2017)
Rachel Delman, 'The Vowesses, the anchoresses, and the aldermen's wives: Lady Margaret Beaufort and the Devout Society of Late Medieval Stamford' (Urban History 49, 2022)
David Grummitt, A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (revised edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
Michael Hicks, The Wars of the Roses (Yale University Press, 2010)
Lauren Johnson, Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)
Michael K. Jones and Malcolm G. Underwood, The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2008), especially the chapter 'Margaret Beaufort's Literate Practice: Service and Self-Inscription'
J.L. Laynesmith, Cecily Duchess of York (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Susan Powell, The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort, 1443-1509 (Liverpool University Press, 2022)
Nicola Tallis, Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch (Michael O'Mara, 2019)
Micheline White (ed.), English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 (Ashgate, 2016), especially 'Lady Margaret Beaufort's Translations as Mirrors of Practical Piety' by Brenda M. Hosington
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Fiona Stafford Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford
Nicholas Roe Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews
And
Meiko O'Halloran, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
John Barnard, John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Katie Garner and Nicholas Roe (eds), John Keats and Romantic Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Ian Jack, Keats and the Mirror of Art (Oxford University Press, 1967)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Selected Writings (Oxford University Press, 2020)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Oxford 21st-Century Authors (University Press, 2017)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), Selected Poems (Penguin, 2007)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), The Complete Poems (Penguin, 2nd edition, 1977)
John Keats (ed. Jeffrey N. Cox), Keats's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008)
Carol Kyros Walker, Walking North with Keats (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Richard Marggraf Turley (ed.), Keats's Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Lucasta Miller, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (Jonathan Cape, 2021)
Michael O'Neill (ed.), John Keats in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Christopher Ricks, Keats and Embarrassment (Oxford University Press, 1974)
Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New Life (Yale University Press, 2012)
Helen Vendler, The Odes of Keats (Belknap Press, 2004)
Susan J. Wolfson, Reading John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Susan J. Wolfson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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Fiona Stafford Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford
Nicholas Roe Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews
And
Meiko O'Halloran, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
John Barnard, John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Katie Garner and Nicholas Roe (eds), John Keats and Romantic Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Ian Jack, Keats and the Mirror of Art (Oxford University Press, 1967)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Selected Writings (Oxford University Press, 2020)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Oxford 21st-Century Authors (University Press, 2017)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), Selected Poems (Penguin, 2007)
John Keats (ed. John Barnard), The Complete Poems (Penguin, 2nd edition, 1977)
John Keats (ed. Jeffrey N. Cox), Keats's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008)
Carol Kyros Walker, Walking North with Keats (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Richard Marggraf Turley (ed.), Keats's Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Lucasta Miller, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (Jonathan Cape, 2021)
Michael O'Neill (ed.), John Keats in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Christopher Ricks, Keats and Embarrassment (Oxford University Press, 1974)
Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New Life (Yale University Press, 2012)
Helen Vendler, The Odes of Keats (Belknap Press, 2004)
Susan J. Wolfson, Reading John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Susan J. Wolfson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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Martin Worthington Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin
Frances Reynolds Shillito Fellow and Associate Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at The Queen's College
And
Selena Wisnom Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Zainab Bahrani, Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2017)
Dominique Charpin, Hammurabi of Babylon (I.B. Tauris, 2021)
Prudence O. Harper, Joan Aruz and Françoise Tallon, The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures from the Louvre (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992)
J. Nicholas Postgate (ed.), Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern (British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2007), especially 'Babylonian and Assyrian: A History of Akkadian' by Andrew R. George
Martha T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2nd edition, Scholars Press, 1997)
Marc Van De Mieroop, King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography (Wiley, 2005)
Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC (4th edition (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
Selena Wisnom, The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (Allen Lane, 2025)
Martin Worthington, Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian with Original Texts (Teach Yourself Library, 2012)
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Martin Worthington Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin
Frances Reynolds Shillito Fellow and Associate Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at The Queen's College
And
Selena Wisnom Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Zainab Bahrani, Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2017)
Dominique Charpin, Hammurabi of Babylon (I.B. Tauris, 2021)
Prudence O. Harper, Joan Aruz and Françoise Tallon, The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures from the Louvre (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992)
J. Nicholas Postgate (ed.), Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern (British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2007), especially 'Babylonian and Assyrian: A History of Akkadian' by Andrew R. George
Martha T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2nd edition, Scholars Press, 1997)
Marc Van De Mieroop, King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography (Wiley, 2005)
Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC (4th edition (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
Selena Wisnom, The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (Allen Lane, 2025)
Martin Worthington, Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian with Original Texts (Teach Yourself Library, 2012)
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Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:49:49https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4v1PodcastsThu, 12 Feb 2026 09:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4Important Update – See DescriptionImportant Update – See Descriptionhttps://bbcsoundsrss.mediaImportant Update About This Podcast
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I'm looking at a few options to keep this service running as smoothly as possible even after the changes. However, I won’t know how feasible that is until they take effect. There’s no official timeline, so it may happen suddenly—one day, the podcast could simply stop updating.
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