Sex, Politics (and Religion)? Contemporary Plays and Classic Revivals in British Theatre A consideration of two waves of British theatre between the...
How to be a Shakespearean Atheist This lecture will explore how the sixteenth century found ways of distancing itself from religion.
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
The Grande Messe des Morts and the Absence of God David Cairns delivers this lecture ahead of the City of...
The Berlioz Requiem - Pre-concert talk The Berlioz Requiem will be performed later the same evening...
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...