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Tubes of paint Detail from St. Sebastian by Cavaliere Perugino,
The Arts
Jeanette Winterson described artists as the superconductors of society. The fruits of their labours have value beyond the surface, and reflect our lives as well as those that created them.

The biographer's perspective

Jim Moore

Professor Jim Moore talks about the motivation for his work with Darwin - and Darwin's motivations: Darwin and me.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Wall Street

One wrong turn changes Sherman McCoy’s life forever in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire Of the Vanities.

Hearing women's lives

Sappho by Charles Mengin

You can discover real lives of classical Greece in literature, but it takes a closer reading to find the real women.

 

Taking to the air

Microphones

How do you go about adapting a stage play for the very different medium of radio? Follow Faustus from stage to studio.

When art became science

Inscrutability made bulletproof - the Mona Lisa on display in the Louvre

He was a master of many arts, but his skill as a painter was his greatest gift. Discover the extraordinary paintings of Leonardo da Vinci.

 

Taking it further

Students in a library

Interested? Keen? Not sure where to go next? Why not explore our choice ways of taking it further.

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