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Secret Life of BooksWorld Poetry Day Double-Bill: Can poetry change the world? The War Poems of Siegfried SassoonTogether, Siegfried Sassoon’s The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918) are among the greatest examples of protest art in British history. Sassoon was a decorated war hero, who took a stand - when few others dared - on the moral emptiness, institutional corruption and brutality of the First World War. Alongside his poetry, Sassoon took the shocking measure of writing an open letter, which was read out in parliament, in which he accused the British government and military of deception, of deliberately prolonging an ‘evil and unjust’ war, and the complacency of the British public for not h...2025-03-2154 min
After School Archive ClubRemembering War - Commemoration, Trauma, and Military HistoryThis week Lis, Katie, and Patrick discuss the history of Remembrance Day. Take a critical look at how war is commemorated in Canada, and why it needs to be changed.
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Some Desperate Glory, Max Egremont
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan
Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan
Between Commemoration and History: The Historiography of the Canadian Corps and Military Overseas, Humphries, Mark Osborne.
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Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House53. La Traviata: The Most Performed Opera in the WorldAnush Hovannisyan on playing Violetta in La Traviata and Stewart Collins tells us about this week’s Petworth Literary Festival
We’re reading:
The King and the Christmas Tree by A.N. Wilson
We’re going to:
The 2021 Petworth Festival Literary Week
Until 7th November
Jeffrey Archer on Sunday 31st October 5.30 p.m. Seaford College
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on Sunday 31st October 8 p.m. St. Mary’s Church
Isabel Hardman on Wednesday 3rd November 5 p.m. St. Mary’s Church
Joan Bakewell o...2021-10-3122 min
That Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher - The House of PodcastsChoice Editions<p>We are off again this week, so some choice cuts from a previous show.</p><p>We are back again recording at The Bryant Corner Cafe, NE 65th and 32nd Ave Ne in Northeast Seattle at 10 am Tuesday the 20th. Drop on by. </p>
<p id="yui_3_17_2_29_1421357156437_4595"><strong id="yui_3_17_2_29_1421357156437_4594">Books Mentioned</strong></p><p>Peter Mountford, “The Dismal Science: A Novel”</p><p>John Lanchester, “Capital”(F), “How To Speak Money” (NF)</p><...2015-01-1500 min
That Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher - The House of PodcastsChoice EditionsWe are off again this week, so some choice cuts from a previous show.We are back again recording at The Bryant Corner Cafe, NE 65th and 32nd Ave Ne in Northeast Seattle at 10 am Tuesday the 20th. Drop on by.
Books MentionedPeter Mountford, “The Dismal Science: A Novel”John Lanchester, “Capital”(F), “How To Speak Money” (NF)Patricia Wrede, Caroline Stevermer, “Sorcery and Cecilia, Or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”Georgiette Heyer, “Sylvester,” “The Grand Sophy.”Max Egremont , “Some Desperate Glory: The First World War...2015-01-1500 minThat Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher - The House of PodcastsThat Stack of Books Episode 3<p>Back again at the Bryant Corner Cafe, we sit down with a few readers. Nancy has a short stack this time, but they are select cuts.</p>
<p></p><p>That Stack of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher, Episode 3</p><p>Books Mentioned</p><p> </p><p>Peter Mountford, “The Dismal Science: A Novel”</p><p>John Lanchester, “Capital”(F), “How To Speak Money” (NF)</p><p> </p><p...2014-10-1500 minThat Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher - The House of PodcastsThat Stack of Books Episode 3Back again at the Bryant Corner Cafe, we sit down with a few readers. Nancy has a short stack this time, but they are select cuts.
That Stack of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher, Episode 3Books Mentioned Peter Mountford, “The Dismal Science: A Novel”John Lanchester, “Capital”(F), “How To Speak Money” (NF) Patricia Wrede, Caroline Stevermer, “Sorcery and Cecilia, Or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”Georgiette Heyer, “Sylvester,” “The Grand Sophy.”Max Egremont , “Some Desperate Glory: The First World War t...2014-10-1500 min
First World War Poetry Digital ArchiveThe Last PhaseA discussion on the last phase of the First World War. A talk given at 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to Battle of the Sambre', Imperial War Museum, 10th November 2012. Max Egremont, writer and lecturer asks: How bad was the Allies' position in the last months of 1917, after Ypres and Passchendaele? Was it possible to imagine defeat? Why was this transformed during 1918, after the huge German advances of the spring? Was there any truth in the Germans' 'stab in the back' claim that politicians had betrayed a still defiant military? The roots of the catastrophe of the 1930s are already...2013-02-1836 min
In Our TimeSiegfried SassoonMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. In 1916 the Military Cross was awarded to a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers for "conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy's trenches". The citation noted that he had braved "rifle and bomb fire" and that "owing to his courage and determination, all the killed and wounded were brought in". The hero in question was the poet, Siegfried Sassoon. And yet a year later, and at great personal risk, Sassoon publicly denounced the conduct of the war in which he had fought so well.Although famous for his...2007-06-0742 min