The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ This lecture considers ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ from Carousel (1945)...
Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" This festive lecture explores the unusual roots of the song...
Women at the Piano: A History Through Images This lecture explores the emergence of the "femme au piano"...
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns’ 'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...
The Artist as Soul Stealer: Drawing Alastair Campbell Martin Rowson on unnerving Alastair Campbell by drawing him. An...
The Stories We Make Up & The Stories That Make Us In a sense, we are all storytellers, from the conversations...
Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference? Difficulties with reading and writing have wide-ranging effects beyond academic...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Portraits of Native Americans from Pocahontas to Sitting Bull From 1600 – 1850, artists in England and, later, in...