BBC Free Thinking Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Plays: Pleasant And Unpleasant The First Volume Containing The Three Unpleasant Plays
George Bernard ShawBBC Free ThinkingTonight at 10pm on @BBCRadio3 we're heaving with big ideas and thumping speeches. @annemcelvoy looks at staging the plays of George Bernard Shaw with Sos Eltis @engfac, Mark Lawson and @pmiller67 @OrangeTreeThtr https://t.co/AyKar4avTc
Paperback, 2014
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
António TomásBBC Free ThinkingPoetry and politics, agrarian reform and armed struggle: Rana Mitter talks to António Tomás, José Ligna Nafafé and Alexandra Reza about Pan Africanist, anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral: https://t.co/WcGQBqTw1O
Hardcover, 2021
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, Volume 2
Bernard ShawBBC Free ThinkingTonight at 10pm on @BBCRadio3 we're heaving with big ideas and thumping speeches. @annemcelvoy looks at staging the plays of George Bernard Shaw with Sos Eltis @engfac, Mark Lawson and @pmiller67 @OrangeTreeThtr https://t.co/AyKar4avTc
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France: An Adventure History
Graham RobbBBC Free ThinkingComing up at 10pm tonight on @BBCRadio3, we're off to France. @annemcelvoy is joined by @Gigivincendeau, Graham Robb, Tash Aw and @DrHannahScott on the eve of #BastilleDay: https://t.co/XXPjJbdOJ1
Paperback, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Glastonbury Romance
John Cowper PowysBBC Free ThinkingHis novel A Glastonbury Romance was claimed one of the best of C20th but now it's out of print. What happened? @DrMatthewSweet explores the complex psychology & intense landscapes of John Cowper Powys w/ Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair, John Gray @bardicacademic @BBCRadio3 @ 10
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Radical: A Life of My Own
Xiaolu GuoBBC Free ThinkingYou can hear about this ceiling, the Milu deer and other works @McrMuseum in our conversation @BBCRadio3 + Xiaolu Guo on her Radical memoir, @AlexHoComposer on his upcoming piece Untold & @acylau on Brecht @LyricHammer https://t.co/yDQEi3ROyk https://t.co/ZaYmuHqSCC
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition
Anna KavanBBC Free ThinkingTonight @BBCRadio3 10pm ice in the writing of Anna Kavan discussed by @drmatthewsweet @chris_power @northactually Carole Sweeney @GoldsmithsUoL and @DrVWalker
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Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing
Ina LingeBBC Free ThinkingHeard of Operation Tiger - a 1984 raid on Gay's the Word? @pykelets tells Diarmuid Hester @ahrcpress @BBCRadio3 about a🏳️🌈oral history project + @DrInaLinge previews research coming out in a book Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing https://t.co/OzaoKd50PS https://t.co/42uicUnNwh
Hardcover, 2023
$70.00$45.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
We Need New Names
Noviolet BulawayoBBC Free ThinkingShould we call Dambudzo Marechera an "enfant terrible" ? @tinsmush discusses a lesser known side of the Zimbabwean writer 🇿🇼 plus the explosion of female voices from NoViolet Bulwayo's #WeNeedNewNames to essays by Tsitsi Dangarembga @BBCRadio3 👉https://t.co/4npnZqqbur https://t.co/GXmyWfd2Ph
Paperback, 2014
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Country
Liz BerryBBC Free ThinkingCheck out @beinghumanfest Wolverhampton this weekend and get in the mood by listening to this discussion @BBCRadio3 @drmatthewsweet about Black Country accents, writing and history feat Esther Asprey @wlv_uni + @MissLizBerry @sbriercliffe https://t.co/db0gpOWv8N https://t.co/eSFejMCznL
Paperback, 2014
$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book