Michael Caines joins us to discuss female liberation in genteel Cheltenham; we look ahead to an Odyssey extravaganza, with Ted Hodgkinson from the Southbank centre; Paul Muldoon brings a salutary note of optimism to US politics and history with his new poem "With Joseph Brant in Canajoharie"
Books
Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds by Sue Jones
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Selected Poems 1968-2014 by Paul Muldoon
Kathy Acker's guts
Matthew Arnold's good-bad poetry
Valeria Luiselli on the US immigration crisis
Heavy with odours
Authors of injustice
Good, bad and loud feminist writing
Free Speech vs Safe Space: the Great Campus Divide
Samuel Beckett's turtle-neck, etc
Matters poetical
Peter Brook at work
The world's most mysterious manuscript
Pop science and Punjabi epics
Peak bullshit
India's broken legacy
Ian Nairn, route master
Trump and the great car crisis
Jane Austen at 200
'Let me be clear...'
Robert Frost's aggression
'Who shall we kill today?'
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