Today
TODAY – BBC RADIO FOUR. I was on Friday’s programme (8 March) talking about revenge with Natalie Haynes. You can[…]
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Bibliocide
No civilised person is supposed to make bonfires of books. ‘Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings,’ wrote the German poet Heinrich Heine in the century before Nazism. Burning books is a sacrilegious act, and the taboo against it particularly binds writers. So what was I doing in a Somerset field lighting a match under the 32 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica?
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A short reflection on the Church of England’s refusal to allow women bishops “in the spirit of thought for the day”, for Radio Four’s PM programme.
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HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE – SAGE, GATESHEAD 3 NOVEMBER Taking part in a panel discussion as part of Radio Three’s[…]
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