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Tuesday Jan 29th, 2013

How ardently I admire and love you…

A scene from the book versus the movie
Sunday Jan 27th, 2013

The curious appeal of Alice

Peter Hunt reflects on the curious and curiouser fact that Lewis Carroll is remembered!
Saturday Jan 26th, 2013

The Playboy Riots of 1907

When Dublin’s Abbey Theatre announced that John Millington Synge’s new play The Playboy of the Western World would be produced on Saturday, 26 January 1907, all were on alert.
Sunday Jan 20th, 2013

John Ruskin’s childhood home

An excerpt from ‘Praeterita’ by John Ruskin.
Wednesday
Jan 16th, 2013

The two funerals of Thomas Hardy

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Saturday
Jan 12th, 2013

Choice in the true neces­saries and means of life

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Monday
Dec 31st, 2012

Love and appetite in Anna Karenina

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Sunday
Dec 23rd, 2012

Self-help isn’t what it used to be

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Saturday
Dec 22nd, 2012

You must forget me

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Thursday
Dec 20th, 2012

The Grimms and ‘Tales for Children and the Household’

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Tuesday
Dec 18th, 2012

Christmas dinner with the Cratchits

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Monday
Dec 17th, 2012

Roast Goose, the Mrs Beeton way

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Thursday
Dec 13th, 2012

Samuel Johnson and human flight

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Friday
Dec 7th, 2012

De Quincey’s fine art

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Saturday
Dec 1st, 2012

Great Expectations: an audio guide

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Wednesday
Nov 21st, 2012

Voltaire, l’esprit, and irony

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