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The Artist and Politics

Peter Porter

Clive James and Peter Porter return to discuss the relationship of the artist to politics, from the age of Plato until recent times.

 

 


Programme 1

Date of Show: Sat, August 14, 2004

Classical Greece and Rome.

Programme 2
Date of Show: Sat, August 21, 2004

The Renaissance artist and the Enlightened despot.

Programme 3
Date of Show: Tue, September 28, 2004

The poet takes sides: the English Revolution and the French Revolution.

Programme 4
Date of Show: Sat, October 02, 2004

Writers and Revolution: from the French Revolution to Charles Dickens.

Programme 5
Date of Show: Sat, October 23, 2004

The artist as reformer and propagandist: from Shaw to Orwell and Auden.

Programme 6
Date of Show: Sat, October 30, 2004

Getting it wrong: from Thomas Mann to George W. Bush.

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    Dialogues:
    • Poetry (Chicago) podcast
    • With Peter Porter
      • On not having a Classical education
      • The literature of the 20th century
      • Humour in English literature
      • On becoming a poet
      • Sex and love in literature and the arts
      • The Artist and Politics
        • Programme 1
        • Programme 2
        • Programme 3
        • Programme 4
        • Programme 5
        • Programme 6
      • Background to the Broadcasts
    • With Michael Burleigh: "The Third Reich"
    • With Richard Dawkins
    • With Pete Atkin, on songwriting
    • On Auden, with John Clarke
    • Song Show on Tour
    • CBC interview
    • NPR Interview
    • NYPL Interview
    CJ solo:
    • BBC Radio 4: A Point of View
    • An Hour on Poetry
    • Poems from "The Book of My Enemy"
    • Insult to the Language
    • David Scott Mitchell Memorial Lecture
    • On Derek Walcott
    Other poets reading aloud:
    • John Betjeman
    • Judith Beveridge
    • William Empson
    • Stephen Edgar
    • James Fenton
    • Seamus Heaney
    • Galway Kinnell
    • Philip Larkin
    • Louis MacNeice
    • Les Murray
    • Sylvia Plath
    • Anthony Thwaite
    • Richard Wilbur
    • W.B. Yeats

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