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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday sang about alcohol and broken hearts and went to prison for drug use. Read more
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Women of Substance
Billie Holiday sang about alcohol and broken hearts and went to prison for drug use.
Anna Kavan
Legally prescribed heroin by a psychiatrist, Anna Kavan’s writing reveals her addiction.
Andrea Dunbar
At 18 Andrea Dunbar was the youngest playwright ever at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin beat heroin and Oxycontin. Her biggest fight was against the drug manufacturers
Letters to the Overrated and the Underrated
1. Dear Katherine Mansfield...
Ian Sansom drops a line to late New Zealand-born author and critic Katherine Mansfield.
2. Dear Joseph Conrad...
Ian Sansom pens imaginary missives to late Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.
3. Dear Clarice Lispector...
Ian Sansom fires off a quick line or two to late Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector.
4. Dear Octavia Butler...
Ian Sansom is sending imaginary dispatches to late American sci-fi writer Octavia Butler.
5. Dear John le Carré...
Ian Sansom is writing uncoded messages to late English-Irish spy novelist John le Carré.
Edith Piaf in Five Songs
1. Milord
Edith Piaf - from her mouth to your heart in five songs. 1 - Milord by Lucy O'Meara.
2. L'Accordeoniste
The French singer Edith Piaf - from her mouth to your heart in five of her songs.
3. Les Amants d'un jour
The French singer Edith Piaf - from her mouth to your heart, through five classic songs.
4. Hymne à l'amour
Edith Piaf defined five songs. Myriam Phiro explores love and death in Hymne à l'amour.
5. Non, je ne regrette rien
Edith Piaf in five songs. Elizabeth Alker on Piaf's 1960 classic Non, je ne regrette rien.
A Museum in the Making
11/03/2024
V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford shares his plans for crafting a new kind of museum.
12/03/2024
V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford on trying to put a new kind of museum together.
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Call Me Mother
How the shape of words for mother helps babies eat their food. Rebecca Woods explains
From algorithms to oceans
Kerry McInerney on the promises of the ‘sustainable AI’ movement and how AI may develop
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies
Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
New Generation Thinkers 2023
How the shape of words for mother helps babies eat their food. Rebecca Woods explains.
’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Cooper on the school teacher who tried to ignite a feminist revolution in .
Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with 'pain' thrown onto a tip.
Kerry McInerney explores the promises of the ‘sustainable AI’ movement and how AI develops
The legacy of the laundries
Louise Brangan reflects on the legacies of Ireland's Magdalene laundries.
Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future.
Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a board game created by a Jesuit seeking Mohawk converts.
