Welcome to our podcasts, featuring interviews and readings by some of our researchers. You can also download recordings of many of our public lectures, delivered to be accessible and interesting for a wide audience. For more details, see our podcast pages.
John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost was a landmark of post-Reformation culture in Britain. As part of Radio 3’s Breaking Free series remembering the legacy of Martin Luther, Mandy Green contributed to […]
The late 1970s and 1980s saw a boom in the production and consumption of pornography. Like other areas of the economy, pornography was benefiting from the freedoms of the market under […]
The philosopher’s stone and the holy grail are two of the most sought-after artefacts in myth and legend. Both promise great power – and both carry great risks to those […]
From Darth Vader’s laboured respiration, to the divers gasping for air in James Cameron’s The Abyss, the sounds of breathing in science fiction are not only memorable, they also draw attention […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein presents a monstrous creature that has terrified generations of readers as the embodiment of evil. But just how monstrous is the creature really? And who is the […]
