On radio, Dante and David Bowie became our unexpected guides through lockdown loneliness
This week, Katya Adler held a modern lens to Dante for Radio 4, while Radio 2 and 6 Music marked five years since the death of David Bowie
Dante's Inferno, The Circle of the Thieves, by William Blake
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Let’s hope that’s not going to be the official motto for 2021.
This year does, however, mark seven centuries since the death of Dante Alighieri, the poet of the Divine Comedy. Radio 4 has chosen to celebrate with a slightly bizarre idea: for