Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind

Orhan Pamuk: A Strange Mind April 12, 2019 Turkey’s best-known writer, the Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, glories in his city of Istanbul, which in his lifetime has grown from two to fifteen million people. Despite political controversy which nearly forced him...
Passions: Barry Humphries On The Music Hitler Banned

Passions: Barry Humphries On The Music Hitler Banned

Passions: Barry Humphries On The Music Hitler Banned November 28, 2017 Comedian Barry Humphries explains his lifelong passion for the powerful and transgressive music and art of Germany and Austria after the First World War, and explores what happened to it under...
She Spoke The Unspeakable

She Spoke The Unspeakable

She Spoke The Unspeakable June 15, 2017 The Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi is a global legend, as outspoken, hilarious and totally un-self-censored at 85 as she ever was, she remains a force of nature. Imagine… visits her at home in Cairo and travels with her to the...
Georgia O’Keeffe: By Myself

Georgia O’Keeffe: By Myself

Georgia O’Keeffe: By Myself July 26, 2016 On the brink of the Depression in 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe – America’s first great modernist painter – headed west. In the bright light of the New Mexico desert, she forged an independent life and found...
Toni Morrison Remembers

Toni Morrison Remembers

Toni Morrison Remembers July 14, 2015 An intimate portrait of Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, dubbed ‘America’s first lady of literature’. Her books encompass the whole of black American history but live and breathe in the present. Toni Morrison is now 85 –...