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A biography of Katerina Gogou the anarchist poetess of Exarcheia.

BBC Radio 4 - A feast in audio form BBC Radio 4 is an astonishing radio station broadcast in the UK. It is consistent in quality and varied in content. ...

A revelatory biography of the Bloomsbury outsider and influential critic who championed modern art Detail of a portrait of Clive Bell by Roger Fry circa 1924. Photograph: Alamy Detail of a portrait of Clive Bell by Roger Fry circa 1924. Photograph: Alamy Wed 5 May 2021 04.00 EDT One day when he was looking along his bookshelves, Mark Hussey realised that they contained no biography of Clive Bell. You can see why it would strike the distinguished Bloomsbury scholar as odd. Over the past 50 years...

Remembering Anthony Thwaite New Statesman literary editor, who has died at the age of 90. The poet Anthony Thwaite – who was in his day a university lecturer, a radio producer and one of Philip Larkin’s  literary executors – has died at the age of 90 in a nursing home in his beloved Norfolk. He was the literary editor of this magazine, from 1967 until 1972, though film, theatre and music were also in his purview. The “back half” pages of the magazine under his tenure remain an exc...

Robert Layton obituary Brian Jarman My friend Robert Layton, who has died aged 90, was a musicologist and Radio 3 producer for more than 30 years who specialised in Scandinavian music and wrote biographies of Sibelius and the Swedish composer Franz Berwald. Bob was born in Chadwell Heath, east London, the younger child of Edward Layton, a stockbroker, and his wife, Rhoda (nee Aaron), a homemaker. He learned the piano from the age of nine, and excelled at it by the time he was 1...

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