In the course of his long literary career, Samuel Johnson reviewed only one novel. Who was it by? None other than the "preposterously confident” Charlotte Lennox, a force in eighteenth-century prose and a model for Jane Austen – Min Wild tells us more; What happens if you ask a literary critic to watch top-grossing (pun intended) Hollywood comedies from the past three decades? Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explains how comedy reflects broader culture and anxieties; How are women treated in film and television? Is there cause for celebration? Alice Wadsworth joins us in the studio to discuss.
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Charlotte Lennox: An independent mind by Susan Carlile
Stealing the Show: How women are revolutionizing television by Joy Press
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive portrayals in speculative film and TV by Diana Adesola Mafe
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Time Past and Time Future
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Cometh the Hour
Flights of Fantasy
In Conversation with Richard Sennett
All the World's a Stage
Splendid Isolation
Class Struggles
Energy Creation
Out Of Our Minds
Turning Leaves: Dame Penelope Lively and Josephine Lively
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