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Paul Krugman vs. Austerity and its Supporters
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes down a fat cat Tory donor Jon Moulton and a Tory MP Andrea Leadsom on BBC Newsnight, comprehensively demolishing their arguments for austerity and cuts.
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Orson Welles on McCarthyism, Hemingway, Bullfighting and much else
Michael Parkinson of the BBC interviews the great Orswon Welles (1974). (He speaks about Hemingway around 15:00)
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For Omar Misharawi: Killed by Israeli Airstrikes on 11/14/12
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi At death you measure no more than our arms When we rise to blow a prayer into your charred lung we find resplendent butterflies milling about — lapidary punctuations of our time...
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A History of Syria
Dan Snow travels to Syria, for the BBC’s This World series, to see how the country’s fascinating and tumultuous history is shaping the current civil war.
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Exiles: Edward Said
The following is an episode of the BBC series Exiles featuring Edward Said (h/t to Doug Tarnopol).
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I, Claudius
I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Written by Jack Pulman, it proved one of the corporation’s most successful drama serials of all...
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Brave New World, A Discussion
Melvyn Bragg and guests David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and Michele Barrett discuss Aldous Huxley’s dystopian 1932 novel, Brave New World. Brave New World features in the List Muse 100 Best Novels of All...
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Exodus: Our Journey to Europe
n 2015, we gave cameras to some of the people who smuggled themselves into Europe, to record where no-one else can go. The result is a terrifying, intimate, epic portrait of the migration crisis. All...
View Article“Undignified”, “humiliating”, “belittled”—BAME experience at the BBC
A source at the BBC has leaked us this resignation letter that someone sent out to all employees. The experiences described herein stand in stark contrast to the commitments the BBC made towards its...
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