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Opening LinesThe Princess BrideAccording to its introduction, The Princess Bride is a long, sprawling book by the great Florinese writer S. Morgenstern that renowned screenwriter and novelist William Goldman has been obliged to abridge so that his son doesn’t have to struggle through all the boring bits. But as John Yorke reveals, all is not as it seems in this metafictional novel from 1973 that Goldman himself went on to adapt into a screenplay for a much-loved film. The Princess Bride may ostensibly be a fairy story, but there’s a lot more going on beneath the surface. John...
2025-11-3014 minOpening LinesThe Cherry Orchard - Episode TwoJohn Yorke looks at The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s final play and a landmark in 20th century theatre.It’s 1903 and Liubov Andryeevna Ranyevskaya has returned to the family estate in southern Russia. As the head of this aristocratic household she faces a dilemma. The family is in serious financial difficulty and they have the choice of either selling the entire estate, or accepting the proposal of local businessman, Lopakhin, to cut down their beloved cherry orchard to make way for holiday homes and use the money to pay their debts. In the second of t...
2025-09-1414 minOpening LinesThe Cherry Orchard - Episode OneJohn Yorke looks at The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s final play and a landmark in 20th century theatre.It’s 1903 and Liubov Andryeevna Ranyevskaya is returning to the family estate in southern Russia. As the head of this aristocratic household, she faces a crisis. The family is in serious financial difficulty and it seems inevitable that the estate will have to be sold to pay their debts. A local businessman, Lopakhin, offers a solution, but it would mean the loss of their beloved cherry orchard. In this first of two episodes, the focus is on t...
2025-09-1414 minOpening LinesKing Lear - Episode TwoJohn Yorke looks at King Lear, the brutal tragedy that some claim is Shakespeare’s greatest achievement.When Lear, the 80 year old king of ancient Britain, decides that the time has come to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, he unwittingly sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events that will tear apart both his family and his realm. He banishes his faithful youngest daughter, Cordelia, while his two elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, who declared their undying love for their father, bar their doors to him. Driven mad by fury, Lear wanders a barren heath in...
2025-06-1514 minOpening LinesKing Lear - Episode OneJohn Yorke looks at King Lear, the brutal tragedy that some claim is Shakespeare’s greatest achievement.When Lear, the 80 year old king of ancient Britain, decides that the time has come to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, he unwittingly sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events that will tear apart both his family and his realm. In this first of two episodes, the focus is on the fractured relationship between Lear and his daughters – Goneril, Regan and Cordelia – and on the subplot that involves the breakdown of another family. This comprises the Duke of Glo...
2025-06-0814 minOpening LinesThe Girl of the Sea of CortezJohn Yorke looks at Peter Benchley’s environmentally themed novel The Girl of the Sea of Cortez.Peter Benchley is best known for his debut novel Jaws which become a huge global bestseller when it was published in 1974 and was further seared into the public consciousness by Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation the following year. His next two novels – The Deep and The Island – were also thrillers set at sea. However, Benchley’s attitude to the oceans and the creatures that live in them underwent a transformation in this period due to the diving trips he’d start...
2024-12-0814 min
A Clan A Day PodcastClan NicolsonWelcome back to A Clan A Day Podcast, brought to you by bagtownclans.com. I’m your host, Colin MacDonald, and today, we’re exploring the history of a unique and storied Scottish clan with ancient Gaelic roots and a Norse twist—Clan Nicolson. Known in the Highlands as Clan MacNicol or Clan MacNeacail, this clan’s history is one of alliances, feuds, and even a tale of two separate clans with the same name. Let’s dive into the captivating history of the Nicolsons and MacNicols.Our story begins in Ross-shire in the remote and rugged district k...
2024-11-0108 min
A Clan A Day PodcastClan MacLeodWelcome back to "A Clan A Day Podcast," brought to you by bagtownclans.com. I'm your host, Colin MacDonald. Today, we're exploring the rich and often turbulent history of Clan MacLeod, a storied clan of the Scottish Highlands with roots that stretch back to the Norse-Gaelic world of the Western Isles. The MacLeods are unique in being divided into two primary branches, each with its own distinct history and territory: the MacLeods of Harris and Dunvegan, known as the Siol Tormod, and the MacLeods of Lewis, Assynt, and Raasay, referred to as the Siol Torquil. Let's dive into their...
2024-09-0207 min
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMission in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777137to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mission in Malmö
Series: #9 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Release date: August 13, 2024
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
2006. Anita Sundström has only been with Chief Inspector Erik Moberg's Criminal Investigation Squad for a year when they have to tackle the aftermath of an armed robbery at a cash handling facility in Malmö. The raid has left one security guard dead and there is no sign of the stolen millions. Though the team make early progress, they soon become frus...
2024-08-139h 51
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMission in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mission in Malmö Series: #9 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: 2006. Anita Sundström has only been with Chief Inspector Erik Moberg's Criminal Investigation Squad for a year when they have to tackle the aftermath of an armed robbery at a cash handling facility in Malmö. The raid has left one security guard dead and there is no sign of the stolen millions. Though the team make early progress, they soon beco...
2024-08-1330 min
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777135to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mammon in Malmö
Series: #8 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Release date: July 16, 2024
Genres: Police & Detective
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With a new Skåne County Police commissioner wanting to make his mark in Malmö, the Criminal Investigation Squad is under pressure when they are called in to solve the killing of a private investigator. The nature of the victim's work throws up some obvious suspects, yet not all is what it seems. When another murder takes place, there seems to be a...
2024-07-1610h 50
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mammon in Malmö Series: #8 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: With a new Skåne County Police commissioner wanting to make his mark in Malmö, the Criminal Investigation Squad is under pressure when they are called in to solve the killing of a private investigator. The nature of the victim's work throws up some obvious suspects, yet not all is what it seems. When another murder takes place, there seems to b...
2024-07-1630 min
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveA Malmö Midwinter by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777123to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Malmö Midwinter
Series: #4.5 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Release date: June 25, 2024
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Inspector Anita Sundström is called away from Christmas with her mother to help investigate a domestic death. Her initial relief at escaping a dull festive season soon fades when she and sidekick, Hakim Mirza, find themselves dealing with a difficult case involving the murder of an unloved father and disliked neighbor. Though suspects and motives abound, they are having difficulty ide...
2024-06-253h 46
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveA Malmö Midwinter by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Malmö Midwinter Series: #4.5 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Inspector Anita Sundström is called away from Christmas with her mother to help investigate a domestic death. Her initial relief at escaping a dull festive season soon fades when she and sidekick, Hakim Mirza, find themselves dealing with a difficult case involving the murder of an unloved father and disliked neighbor. Though suspects and motives abound, they are having dif...
2024-06-2530 min
Arts & IdeasFrancis Ford Coppola's The ConversationGene Hackman is a brilliant but troubled surveillance expert who gets drawn unwittingly into a conspiracy to murder. Released at the height of the Watergate scandal, Coppola's 1974 film about covert surveillance and wire-tapping reflected the mood of paranoia in the USA at the time. Matthew Sweet his guests, film historians Lucy Bolton and Phuong Le, writer Michael Goldfarb and writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell discuss the film and how our attitudes to being subjected to surveillance have changed in the fifty years since it was released.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2024-03-0745 minArts & IdeasCan - Future DaysFormed in 1968, the German group Can's founding members included Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay who had both studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen. Joined by jazz drummer Jaki Liebezeit, guitarist Michael Karoli and Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki for the group's 'classic' line-up that recorded Tago Mago (1971) and Ege Bamyasi (1972), their fourth album - Future Days - saw them exploring a more ambient, blissed-out sound, in contrast to their previous releases. Matthew Sweet is joined by musicians Jah Wobble and Gwenno, novelist Alan Warner and cultural historian Mererid Puw Davies to take a deep dive into the album and explore the blend...
2024-02-2244 minArts & IdeasThe Greenwich OutrageIn February 1894, the French anarchist Martial Bourdin was killed in Greenwich Park when the bomb he was carrying exploded accidentally. The event provided Joseph Conrad with the inspiration for his novel The Secret Agent, and the resulting backlash against anarchist groups in London eventually led to the first British immigration legislation - the 1905 Aliens Act. As a conference takes place exploring the incident and its legacy, Matthew Sweet is joined by historians Charlotte Jones, Ruth Kinna and Thomas Jones to discuss the bombing that was dubbed "the Greenwich Outrage".Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2024-02-0945 minArts & IdeasOn The Silver GlobeThe "best sci-fi film" never made? That's what Andrzej Zulawski's project has been called. Shut down by the Polish government before production had finished in 1977, the film wasn't completed and released until 1987. It's a visually stunning and wildly ambitious exploration of myth, religion and being human in an alien world. Zulawski (1940-2016) studied cinema in France and became known for art-house films working with actresses including Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau. Matthew Sweet and his guests Daniel Bird, Sarah Dillon and David Hering, have been watching On the Silver Globe.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2024-02-0245 minArts & IdeasDickens, Disney and copyrightMickey Mouse in his first incarnation in a short film from 1928 becomes available for public viewing without infringing Disney's copyright next year. In a programme looking back at the copyright history which affected authors including Charles Dickens and at current questions around legislation, Matthew Sweet is joined by David Bellos, author of Who Owns This Sentence? – A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, Katie McGettigan, lecturer in C19th American literature and Hayleigh Bosher, Reader in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2023-12-2144 minArts & IdeasHarry BelafontePopularising calypso music, performing with Sinatra's Rat pack, Nana Mouskouri, Miriam Makeba and Charlie Parker, starring in films including Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones, the hip hop film he produced called Beat Street, Robert Altman's Kansas City and Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman: Harry Belafonte's career in film and music ran from 1949 to 2018 but he was also a tireless political activist who was inspired by Paul Robeson. As the BFI programmes a season of his films in December, Matthew Sweet is joined by Candace Allen, Kevin Le Gendre and Susanne Rostock.Producer: Torquil MacLeodOn the Free Thinking...
2023-12-1545 minArts & IdeasKadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and DickensThe Palace of Dreams is a novel from 1981 that is ostensibly set in the 19th century Ottoman empire, but the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare cleverly smuggles in thinly veiled criticism of the totalitarian state presided over by Enver Hoxha. The book was duly banned shortly after publication. Matthew Sweet looks at this and other examples of fiction that satirise bureaucratic overreach from Dickens to Kafka to Georgi Gospodinov, the Bulgarian novelist who won the 2023 International Booker prize for his novel Time Shelter. Sharing their thoughts on these books and on the history and role of bureaucracy within both democratic...
2023-12-0145 minArts & IdeasSam Selvon and The Lonely LondonersCaribbean migrants striving to make their lives in London are the focus of this 1956 novel by Samuel Selvon. Written in creolized English, it established him as an important Caribbean voice. In an event organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library, Shahidha Bari is joined by the poet Anthony Joseph, the writer Guy Gunaratne and by Susheila Nasta who is a writer, critic and literary executor and representative for the Sam Selvon literary estate.Guy Gunaratne‘s first novel In Our Mad And Furious City won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, Jhalak Pr...
2023-11-2144 minArts & IdeasThe Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023From Iraq and Afghanistan and news headlines today back to earlier battles in the Spanish Civil War and World War Two, the relationship between war, photography and the press has affected attitudes towards conflicts. In the annual Remembrance discussion organised in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, Free Thinking presenter Anne McElvoy's panel are: Toby Haggith Senior Curator, Department of Second World War and Mid 20th Century Conflict; Irish Iraqi artist Jananne Al-Ani, whose work explores surveillance, aerial reconnaissance and exodus after warfare; Charlie Calder-Potts, who was an official war artist with the British Army in Afghanistan 2013/14; and Caroline...
2023-11-0744 minArts & IdeasRobert Aickman"Strange stories" is the way Robert Aickman (1914-1981) described his fiction and to be honest that's putting it mildly. When he wasn't writing fiction that leaves both his protagonists and his readers in some very weird places, he was involved in an investigation into the haunting of Borley Rectory, was a member of The Ghost Club and he also co-founded the British Inland Waterways Association to restore canals. Matthew Sweet is joined by three fans of his work - critic Suzy Feay, writer Andrew Male and publisher R.B. Russell.Producer: Torquil MacLeodRobert Aickman...
2023-11-0245 minArts & IdeasEliza Flower and non-conformist thinkingThe first live concert in 175 years of songs and music written by Eliza Flower (1803-1846) takes place tomorrow. A friend of JS Mill, Harriet Martineau and Robert Browning, Flower set to music some of Walter Scott's romantic songs, composed music for her sister Sarah Flower Adams, who penned hymns including Nearer, My God, to Thee.
Singer Frances M Lynch, accompanied on piano by Laurence Panter, joins New Generation Thinker and historian Oskar Jensen and Dr Clare Stainthorp, who is researching the Freethought Movement: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secularism, 1866–1907. Matthew Sweet hosts.Producer: Torquil MacLeodFlower of th...
2023-10-2745 minArts & IdeasValis and Philip K DickA series of revelatory hallucinations that Philip K Dick experienced in 1974, radically altering his view of belief, time and history, were the inspiration for his quasi-autobiographical novel Valis which was published in 1981. Roger Luckhurst, Sarah Dillon, Beth Singler and Adam Scovell join Matthew Sweet to unravel this deeply strange book and to discuss how Dick's experience of mental illness and his tireless attempts at self-diagnosis thread their way through his novels and short stories, despite being largely absent from the many film and TV adaptations of his work, including Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report.Producer...
2023-10-2045 minArts & IdeasThe Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023Nicholas Cullinan from the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG) and Elvira Dyangani Ose from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA) join Anne McElvoy to discuss the challenges of running a major art museum and their visions for the future of their respective institutions. They discuss connecting with a wider community which has involved the NPG showing a David Beckham portrait in the hospital he was born in, and plans at MACBA to open out the ground floor and use the squares that surround the museum in Barcelona; the impact of blockbuster shows about Vermeer and Picasso a...
2023-10-1144 minArts & IdeasSlavic culture and mythTales of adventure and magic connect the Slavic lands: East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria). Matthew Sweet has been reading a new collection of Slavic myths. The authors Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak join academic Mirela Ivanova to talk about the way Slavic tales connect with stories from Greece, Rome, Egypt and Scandinavia and how they were used to bolster power in new Slavic nations.Producer: Torquil MacLeodThe Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak and il...
2023-10-0344 minArts & IdeasThe Red ShoesThe dancer Moira Shearer starred in the 1948 film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger which reworks a Hans Christian Andersen story, mixed with elements of ballet history and the founding of the Ballet Russes by Diaghilev. The film, about the tangled relationships between a dancer, composer and ballet impresario, had a cast involving many professional dancers, and gained five Academy Award nominations including best score for Brian Easdale. As the BFI prepares a UK-wide season of Powell and Pressburger films running from 16th October to 31st December (including a re-release of The Red Shoes), Matthew...
2023-09-1545 minArts & IdeasDepicting AIDS in DramaRussell T. Davies is joined by his friend and author of Love from the Pink Palace, Jill Nalder to discuss their importance in one another’s lives, the importance of literature in their lives, and the TV series It’s a Sin with New Generation Thinker and psychiatrist Sabina Dosani and chair Matthew Sweet in a conversation recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature which was recorded to mark World AIDS Day. Producer: Torquil MacLeodYou can find a collection of discussions recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature in a coll...
2023-08-2344 minArts & IdeasLandladiesLouise Jameson joins Matthew Sweet to recall the women who ran the digs she stayed in as a touring actor and the landladies that she's played (including a homicidal one!). Historian Gillian Williamson looks at how life in boarding houses in Georgian London has been portrayed both in contemporary accounts and in fiction, while Lillian Crawford encounters some memorable landladies in Ealing comedies and other post-war British films.Gillian Williamson is the author of Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London.Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
2023-08-2343 minArts & IdeasLate worksDame Sheila Hancock, Geoff Dyer and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians near the end of their careers.Old Rage by Sheila Hancock is out now in paperback and she can be seen on BBC i-player in the drama The Sixth Commandment
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer is out now in paperback.
Rachel Stott is a composer and plays viola with the Revolutionary Drawing Room, the Bach Players and Sopriola.Producer: Torquil MacLeodYou can hear music composed...
2023-08-2244 minArts & IdeasDark PlacesCrime writer Ann Cleeves, theologian Mona Siddiqui, deep sea fish expert and podcast host Thomas Linley and poet Jake Morris-Campbell join Matthew Sweet to explore areas beyond the reach of light, both literally and metaphorically, as part of Radio 3's 2022 overnight festival at Sage Gateshead.What darkness makes someone commit a murder? Shetland and Vera are two TV series developed from the crime novels of Ann Cleeves. Her most recent book is The Heron's Cry featuring detective Matthew Venn and his colleague Jen Rafferty, played on TV in an adaptation of The Long Call by Ben Aldridge...
2023-08-2144 minArts & IdeasOliver PostgateThe creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood is discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests: Daniel Postgate who took over Smallfilms from his father, singer Sandra Kerr who was the voice of Madeleine in Bagpuss, composer and author Neil Brand, and writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed. Oliver Postgate's father was a communist and his mother was a political activist, daughter of prominent Labour figure George Lansbury - how much of this political background can we find in the fantastical worlds that he created? There's also discussion of the music that plays such...
2023-08-0244 minArts & IdeasThe Wife of BathChaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores both the roots and the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers such as Zadie Smith and Ted Hughes and a film version by Pasolini. Shahidha's guests are Marion Turner, author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography, Patience Agbabi who reimagines this...
2023-08-0143 minArts & IdeasThe Wife of BathChaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores both the roots and the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers such as Zadie Smith and Ted Hughes and a film version by Pasolini. Shahidha's guests are Marion Turner, author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography, Patience Agbabi who reimagines this...
2023-08-0143 minArts & IdeasWriting and Place: The North-EastJessica Andrews grew up in Sunderland and has written two novels - Saltwater and Milk Teeth. Jake Morris-Campbell still lives in his native South Shields and his poetry includes the collection Corrigenda for Costafine Town and various Radio 3 commissioned pieces. He is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. They talk to Ian McMillan, host of Radio 3's new writing programme The Verb, about how their sense of the North East of England has fed into their writing.Producer Torquil MacLeodYou can find a collection of conversations about Prose, Poetry and Drama on Radio 3's...
2023-07-2220 minArts & IdeasRock FolliesRula Lenska was one of the stars of this 1970s TV series about a fictional female band, playing the role of Nancy "Q" Cunard de Longchamps, alongside Julie Covington and Charlotte Cornwell. She joins Matthew Sweet along with Howard Schuman, who wrote the series, and Andy Mackay, saxophonist with Roxy Music, who co-wrote the songs with Howard. Also taking part are Chloë Moss who has written the book for a stage adaptation of the series that is opening at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and critic David Benedict.Producer: Torquil MacLeodRock Follies based on the t...
2023-07-1444 minArts & IdeasDystopian thinkingDystopias are a longstanding staple of film and literature, particularly science fiction, but what can we learn from them? Do they simply entrench despair or act as a prompt to improve the world? And what do The Two Ronnies have to do with all this? As a stage adaptation of Kay Dick's 1977 novel 'They: A Sequence of Unease' opens at the Manchester International Festival - a work that imagines a Britain that has been purged of culture - Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Una McCormack and New Generation Thinkers Sarah Dillon and SJ Beard to trace the history...
2023-06-3045 minArts & IdeasMichel PiccoliLe Mépris in 1963 brought fame to Michel Piccoli. Jean-Luc Godard's new wave film was based on an Italian novel about a love triangle and power dynamics involving a playwright asked to work on a film script. Piccoli (1925-2020) went on to work with many other directors, including Buñuel, Chabrol, Varda, Rivette, Demy and Sautet in roles which run from a weak priest to a confused pope, with a host of rebels, cynics, lovers and losers mixed in. Matthew Sweet is joined by Geoff Andrew, Muriel Zagha, Phuong Le and Adam Scovell to look at this remarkable career th...
2023-06-0644 minArts & IdeasSneezing, smells and nosesThe profound effects of losing our sense of smell, why historians should think more about the smells of the past and some thoughts on sneezing from Montaigne and La Condamine. Rana Mitter is joined by philosopher and wine-taster Barry Smith, Chrissi Kelly who founded the charity AbScent following her own experience of anosmia (the loss of smell), sensory historian William Tullett and New Generation Thinker Gemma Tidman.William Tullett's book Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives is out now.Producer: Torquil MacLeodYou can find previous Free Thinking discussions about other body...
2023-05-2645 minArts & IdeasEssexThanks in part to the birth of those enduring caricatures - Essex Man & Essex Girl - in the 1990s, this is a county that has struggled to break free from a whole raft of stereotypes and assumptions. Matthew Sweet and his guests - all Essex residents - are here to present a more nuanced, complicated and historically rich vision of this woefully misunderstood part of England.Tim Burrows has written The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County
Elsa James is an artist whose work includes the Forgotten Black Essex project
Simon Heffer is a...
2023-05-1945 minArts & IdeasAgoraphobia"Not so much a fear of going out as a fear of something dreadful happening whilst being out" - writer Graham Caveney talks to Matthew Sweet about his own experience of agoraphobia and also how the condition has been reflected in the work of other writers, including Shirley Jackson and Emily Dickinson. Writer Kate Summerscale and New Generation Thinker Joan Passey trace the shifting ideas about sources of phobias in the 19th century and the explosion of interest in naming and cataloguing them. Film critic Christina Newland explores Alfred Hitchcock's portrayal of phobias in films including Frenzy and Marnie.
2023-05-1245 minArts & IdeasSidney PoitierGuess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) tackled inter-racial relationships. In the Heat of the Night won the Best Picture Oscar in 1967. For Love of Ivy (1968) satirised white liberal attitudes and treated audiences to the indelibly suave image of Poitier eating sushi and talking Japanese. A new play at the Kiln Theatre in London explores the decisions Poitier had to make in his film career. The playwright Ryan Calais Cameron joins Matthew Sweet with film critic Jan Asante and biographer Aram Goudsouzian to look at the acting career of Sidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win the Best Actor Academy...
2023-05-0445 minArts & IdeasLady Antonia FraserFrom Mary Queen of Scots - about whom her mother was going to write until she intervened - to her most recent biography of Caroline Lamb, out in mid May, Lady Antonia Fraser has had a career publishing prize winning books exploring historical figures. In this conversation, recorded at her London home with historian Rana Mitter, she reflects on what she calls "optical research", the crime fiction she has written, meeting figures from history including Clement Atlee dressed as Santa and the prize, established by her daughter Flora, in memory of her mother - The Elizabeth Longford Prize for...
2023-04-2745 minArts & IdeasCaruso, Elsie Houston, Peter BrathwaiteThe singers Enrico Caruso and Elsie Houston, a new opera at ENO and links between musical and artistic traditions in Latin America, Europe and New York are explored by the academics Ditlev Rindom and New Generation Thinker Adjoa Osei. Plus the baritone Peter Brathwaite has an exhibition of lockdown photographs in which he recreates the poses of black people portrayed in paintings from the last 800 years opening in Bristol (the photographs have also been published in a book) and has a musical work in progress, shown at the ROH, which explores his family's Barbadian history. Shahidha Bari hosts
2023-04-1345 minArts & IdeasLand and soil politicsFrom nature as "a living whole" in the ideas of Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt to the "Blood and Soil" ideas of Nazi Germany: New Generation Thinker Jim Scown, from Cardiff University, traces the links between ideas about the order of nature to more troubling views about links with the land that led organic pioneer Jorian Jenks to refer to "alien hands" tilling "British soil".Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2023-04-1314 minArts & IdeasGinger Rogers‘Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels’ said cartoonist Bob Thaves. Matthew Sweet is joined by Lucy Bolton, Pamela Hutchinson, David Benedict and Miles Eady to look at her life (1911-1995) and a film career that stretched far beyond the 10 movies she made with Astaire, including an Oscar winning performance in Kitty Foyle.Producer: Torquil MacLeodThe BFI season runs to the end of April
Many of Ginger Rogers' RKO films are available to watch on iPlayer, including Primrose Path, Kitty Foyle, Vivacious Lady, Carefree and The Gay Divorcee.
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2023-04-1245 minArts & IdeasRevolutionary free speech"Cancel culture" is used to describe debates which touch on freedom of expression today but what can we learn if we look back at events after the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? Clare Siviter, who lectures on the French Revolution and theatre at the University of Bristol, takes us through the experiences of playwrights and authors, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Olympe de Gouges, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard and Destutt de Tracy, who wrote about how ideas spread.Producer: Torquil MacLeodYou can find a collection of essays, discussions and features which showcase the research of N...
2023-04-0714 minArts & IdeasThe Rossettis and Walter PaterWhat is that people hate about the Pre-Raphaelites? From the 19th century to the present day their detractors have been remarkably consistent in the language that they have used to the describe their visceral dislike of these artists and their works. Dinah Roe, Greg Tate and Lynda Nead join Matthew Sweet to examine what makes Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his gang such a polarising force in art history. They also delve into the powerful and sensual poetry of Christina Rossetti and Walter Pater's scandalous book about the Renaissance.The Rossettis runs at Tate Britain from April 6th...
2023-04-0545 minArts & IdeasCharles Babbage and broadcasting the seaThe noisy Victorian world annoyed the mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage, who came up with the idea of a programmable computer. He wrote letters complaining about it and a pamphlet which explored ideas about whether the sea could record its own sound, had a memory and could broadcast sound. New Generation Thinker Joan Passey, from the University of Bristol, sets these ideas alongside the work done by engineers cabling the sea-bed to allow communication via telegraph and Rudyard Kipling's images of these "sea monsters."Producer: Torquil MacLeodNew Generation Thinkers is a scheme run...
2023-04-0414 minArts & IdeasBusking and Billy WatersBilly Waters became a celebrity in early 19th century London as a talented street performer. New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen and Mary L. Shannon join Rana Mitter to tell Billy's story and those of other musicians performing on the streets of London at the time. Charlie Taverner has written a history of Street Food. We also hear from Marigold Hughes about the latest production from Streetwise Opera, an organisation that devises opera productions with people who are or have been homeless.Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London by Oskar Jensen is out now.
Mary L...
2023-03-2144 minArts & IdeasClimate change and empire buildingHaggling with Indian customs officials and presenting a mighty emperor with the distinctly unimpressive gifts of a cheap sword and a broken carriage are two particularly inauspicious moments that feature in the tale told by historian and New Generation Thinker Nandini Das in her new book about the four years Thomas Roe spent as James VI and I's ambassador to the Mughal Empire. Peter Frankopan has previously written about The Silk Roads and the First Crusade. Now he has turned his attention to writing a 5 billion year long history of the natural world, geography and climate change and the...
2023-02-2344 minArts & IdeasPhaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaurA new exhibition at the Ashmolean looks at the digs conducted by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete. At the National Theatre Janet McTeer stars as the Cretan princess Phaedra in a new play by Simon Stone. Classicist Natalie Haynes, curator Andrew Shapland and Minoan archaeologist Nicoletta Momigliano join Rana Mitter to explore what the artefacts found at Knossos can tell us about the world of the Minoans and to delve into the powerful myths these Bronze Age Cretans left us.Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality runs at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 10 Feb 2023 to 30...
2023-02-2144 minArts & IdeasIdrissa OuédraogoBurkinabé filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival for his film Tilaï. Much of Ouédraogo's work deals with the tensions between rural and city life and tradition and modernity in his native Burkina Faso. Matthew Sweet is joined by Boukary Sawadogo who teaches cinema studies at City College of New York and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jilani.Boukary Sawadogo is the author of books including “West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization” and “African Film Studies: An Introduction”Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2023-02-1644 minArts & IdeasThe Heir of RedclyffeSoldiers fighting in the Crimean War lapped up this story and it also influenced the young William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who read it at Oxford. The Heir of Redclyffe, published in 1853, reflects the mid-Victorian trend for medievalism and resurgence of High Church Anglicanism, combining gothic melodrama with sharply observed social realism, sprightly dialogue and wry humour. Although Charlotte M Yonge came to be associated mainly with domestic realism, in her long career (1823–1901) she worked across a wide range of genres, writing biographies, histories, children's books, and novels from historical epics to long-running family sagas. In Yonge's bicentenary year, Ne...
2023-02-0914 minArts & IdeasBerji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage HillsUrbanisation, migration and ‘folk language’ are explored in the 1984 novel by Latife Tekin. The story is a carnivalesque fusion of contrasts like its title – where ‘Berji’ conjures images of an innocent shepherdess and ‘Kristin’ of a sex worker. There’s blind old Güllü Baba, rumoured to cure the ills caused by a nearby factory’s chemical wastewater. There’s Fidan of Many Skills, rumoured to know all the ‘arts of the bed’. There’s the rumour of roads, jobs, and clean water coming to Flower Hill: they never materialise. In his foreword to Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills, John Berger c...
2023-02-0814 minArts & IdeasCrossroads and TV soapsRussell T Davies has written a 3 part mini-series - Nolly - about Crossroads star Noele Gordon. He joins Matthew Sweet along with screenwriter Paula Milne who wrote for Crossroads and Coronation Street and devised Angels for the BBC, and writer Gail Renard, who was working at ATV during the Crossroads years, to explore the unique and sometimes undervalued place of the soap opera in TV drama.Nolly will begin streaming on ITVX from Thursday 2nd February. The drama will be accompanied by a documentary entitled The Real Nolly which will also be available from the same date.
2023-02-0244 minArts & IdeasAudrey HepburnMatthew Sweet marks the 30th anniversary of the death of this icon of film and fashion who was also an EGOT (winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award) and a noted humanitarian. Born in Belgium she supported the Resistance in World War II after moving to Holland, although her parents were Nazi sympathisers. Her films included My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, The Nun's Story, Funny Face and Charade. Matthew Sweet is joined by film historian Lucy Bolton, curator and fashion & film historian Keith Lodwick, film critic Phuong Le, and writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed.
2023-01-1945 minArts & IdeasThe Wife of BathChaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores both the roots and the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers including Zadie Smith and Caroline Bergvall. Her guests are Marion Turner, author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography, Patience Agbabi who reimagines this timeless character as a Nigerian businesswoman in...
2023-01-1744 minArts & IdeasWilkie Collins & disabilityA blind woman who temporarily regains her sight is the heroine of Wilkie Collins’ 1872 novel Poor Miss Finch. Matthew Sweet is joined by Clare Walker Gore, Tom Shakespeare and Tanvir Bush to discuss how Collins’ own poor health led him to write about disability and physical difference in a more nuanced way than many of his contemporaries. Apart from Lucilla Finch, who has more agency when blind than sighted, other examples include the apparently monstrous Miserrimus Dexter ('the new centaur: half-man, half-chair') in The Law and the Lady, and the shockingly moustachioed Marian Halcombe in The Woman in White.
2023-01-0544 minArts & Ideas1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashionsHow tennis stars developed in the 1920s. Historian David Berry and poet Matt Harvey talk to Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough about Centre Court, its opening in the new home of the All England Club in 1922, the styling of stars and how participation in tennis changed.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find more conversations about art and culture of the 1920s in a collection called Modernism on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh
2022-12-2214 minArts & Ideas1922: Reader's DigestReader’s Digest magazine is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the BBC was founded – New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest talking to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Victoria Bazin.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find a playlist about books, art and philosophy from 1922 in a collection called Modernism on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh
2022-12-2214 minArts & IdeasLandladiesLouise Jameson joins Matthew Sweet to recall the women who ran the digs she stayed in as a touring actor and the landladies that she's played (including a homicidal one!). Historian Gillian Williamson looks at how life in boarding houses in Georgian London has been portrayed both in contemporary accounts and in fiction, while Lillian Crawford encounters some memorable landladies in Ealing comedies and other post-war British films.Gillian Williamson is the author of Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London.Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
2022-12-1644 minArts & IdeasDepicting AIDS in DramaRussell T. Davies is joined by his friend and author of Love from the Pink Palace, Jill Nalder, to discuss their importance in one another’s lives, the role of literature in their lives, and the TV series It’s a Sin with New Generation Thinker and psychiatrist Sabina Dosani and chair Matthew Sweet in a conversation recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Library.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2022-12-0844 minArts & IdeasMorgan - A Suitable Case for TreatmentA smouldering gorilla suited man racing through London on a motorbike is one of many striking images from Karel Reisz's 1966 film that starred David Warner (who had just played Hamlet at the RSC) alongside Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Stephens. Matthew Sweet is joined by Stephen Frears who worked as assistant director on the film, the director's son Matthew Reisz and film historian Lucy Bolton to look back at the talents of both Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 - 25 November 2002) and David Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022).Producer: Torquil MacLeodYou can find other episodes of Free Thinking focused on ke...
2022-11-2444 minArts & IdeasPlastic and ClayIt revolutionised domestic chores, signified modernity and has been made into packaging, textiles, electrical machinery but plastic has also contributed to our throw-away society. Clay is turned into bricks, cookware and used in industrial processes including paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering and increasingly contemporary artists are taking up the material. As exhibitions at the V&A Dundee and the Hayward Gallery in London display the different qualities and associations of these materials Lisa Mullen is joined by ceramic artist Lindsey Mendick, curators Cliff Lauson and Johanna Agerman Ross, and Kirsty Sinclair Dootson who studies materials in visual...
2022-11-0944 minArts & IdeasThe Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022Do video games help explore war? An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum includes Sniper Elite 5, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and a military training simulator. For the 2022 discussion about how we look at warfare past and present Anne McElvoy is joined by writer & broadcaster Louise Blain, retired Colonel Lincoln Jopp, game designer Florent Maurin and IWM curator Chris Cooper.War Games runs at IWM London until May 2023 and is a free exhibition.
Louise Blain presents Radio 3's Sound of Gaming - a monthly show looking at the music written for games.You can...
2022-11-0844 minArts & IdeasJohn KnoxThe Scottish theologian and preacher John Knox died on 24th November 1572, bringing to an end a life packed with drama and controversy. Matthew Sweet is joined by historian Steven Reid, literary historian Lucy Hinnie and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel to go through some of the most vivid and important episodes in that life, including his periods in exile, his highly antagonistic meetings with Mary Queen of Scots, and his time on the high seas as a prisoner forced to row a French galley. They also address the question of what makes Knox such an important figure and...
2022-11-0344 minArts & IdeasOliver PostgateThe creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood is discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests Daniel Postgate who took over Smallfilms from his father, singer Sandra Kerr who was the voice of Madeleine in Bagpuss, composer and author Neil Brand, and writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed. Oliver Postgate's father was a communist and his mother was a political activist, daughter of prominent Labour figure George Lansbury - how much of this political background can we find in the fantastical worlds that he created? There's also discussion of the music that plays such...
2022-10-2144 minArts & IdeasThe Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022Hong Kong, Paris and New York galleries and museums are in the spotlight as we hear the latest in a series of discussions exploring what it means to run museums and galleries in the 21st century. For the Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022 Anne McElvoy is joined by Suhanya Raffel (director of M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong), Richard Armstrong (director of the Guggenheim Museum, NYC) and Nathalie Bondil (head of museums and exhibitions at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris).The directors chose 3 artists whose work is either currently on show or has been recently...
2022-10-1244 minArts & IdeasMiles Davis and On The CornerFrom James Brown to Stockhausen, the influences which fed into Miles Davis's 1972 album On The Corner are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests, 50 years after its release. Bill Laswell, Chelsea Carmichael, Kevin LeGendre and Paul Tingen join Matthew to celebrate an album that was dismissed by some jazz critics as evidence of Davis 'selling out' when it came out, but that has gone on to be appreciated as an important and influential milestone.Producer: Torquil MacLeodBill Laswell's many recordings and productions include Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974.
Chelsea Carmichael is a saxophonist...
2022-10-1144 minArts & IdeasHow We ReadThe word 'reading' may appear to describe something specific and universal, but in reality it's more of an umbrella term, covering a huge range of ways in which people interact with text. Dyslexia and hyperlexia may be two of the more obvious departures from normative ideas of reading, but whether we're neurodivergent or not we all read in different ways that can vary significantly depending on what we're reading and why we're reading it. Matthew Sweet is joined by Matt Rubery, Louise Creechan and poets Debris Stevenson and Anthony Anaxagorou.Matt Rubery, Professor of Modern Literature at...
2022-10-0744 minArts & IdeasImmortalityKarel Čapek's 1922 play The Makropulos Affair about a famous singer who has lived for over 300 years was adapted into an opera by the composer Leoš Janáček and premiered in 1926. George Bernard Shaw's play Back to Methuselah, which premiered in 1922, also looks at human destiny and ideas about long life. As Welsh National Opera's new touring production of The Makropulos Affair opens in Cardiff, Matthew Sweet and guests New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon, classicist Charlotte Higgins and philosopher Rebecca Roache explore the quest for endless youth in literature, film and myth and discussions of the idea by philosophers including Bern...
2022-09-1644 minArts & Ideas1922: Nanook of the NorthRobert Flaherty’s ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North came out in the same year as the BBC was founded. Continuing our series explores cultural events from 1922, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to film historian Roswitha Skare and journalist Luke Dormehl about why this study of life in the Arctic has proved to be both controversial and influential.Roswitha Skare is the author of Nanook of the North from 1922 to Today: The Famous Arctic Documentary and Its Afterlife.Luke Dormehl has written A Journey Through Documentary Film.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2022-08-1714 minArts & IdeasNot Quite Jean MuirJade Halbert lectures in fashion, but has never done any sewing. She swaps pen and paper for needle and thread to create a dress from a Jean Muir pattern. In a diary charting her progress, she reflects on the skills of textile workers she has interviewed as part of a project charting the fashion trade in Glasgow and upon the banning of pins on a factory floor, the experiences of specialist sleeve setters and cutters, and whether it is ok to lick your chalk.Jade Halbert is a Lecturer, Fashion Business and Cultural Studies at the University...
2022-08-1214 minArts & IdeasDigging DeepThere is fascinating evidence that 5,000 years ago, people living in Britain and Ireland had a deep and meaningful relationship with the underworld seen in the carved chalk, animal bones and human skeletons found at Cranborne Chase in Dorset in a large pit, at the base of which had been sunk a 7-metre-deep shaft. Other examples considered in this Essay include Carrowkeel in County Sligo, the passage tombs in the Boyne Valley in eastern Ireland and the Priddy Circles in the Mendip Hills in Somerset. If prehistoric people regarded the earth as a powerful, animate being that needed to be...
2022-08-0914 minArts & IdeasLady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelfAuthor of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled autobiographical writing. Visit the family home, Penshurst Place in Kent, and you can see Lady Mary Wroth's portrait, but New Generation Thinker Nandini Das says you can also find her in the pages of her book The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, which places centre stage women who "love and are not afraid to love." Scandal led to her withdrawing it from sale and herself from public life.If you are interested in more discussions about women writers...
2022-08-0214 minArts & Ideas1922: WimbledonIn a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the BBC was founded – Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the All England Lawn Tennis Club's move to a new home talking to David Berry, author of A People's History of Tennis, and Matt Harvey who was poet in residence at Wimbledon in 2010.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2022-08-0214 minArts & Ideas1922: Reader's DigestReader’s Digest magazine is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the BBC was founded – Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest talking to Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Victoria Bazin.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
2022-08-0114 minArts & IdeasTouki BoukiA motorbike adorned with a zebu skull is one of the central images of Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film, whose title translates as The Journey of the Hyena. Listed as one of the 100 greatest films of all time in the Sight and Sound magazine poll, it mixes West African oral traditions with influences from the French New Wave and Soviet cinema. Mory and Anta are two young people growing up in a newly independent Senegal who fantasise about leaving Dakar for a new life in France, but how can they realise those dreams and do they really want t...
2022-07-2645 minArts & IdeasThe Black FantasticFrom Beyonce to Octavia Butler, from Chris Ofili to Jordan Peele, the speculative and the mythical have been used as powerful tools to shape Black art, film, music and writing. Ekow Eshun, who has curated a new exhibition on this theme at the Hayward Gallery, joins Shahidha Bari along with DJ/turntablist NikNak and New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike to discuss how this idea of the Black Fantastic relates to and in some ways challenges Afrofuturism.In the Black Fantastic runs at the Hayward Gallery, London until 18th September 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a book and...
2022-07-0745 min
Tune In To: This Sensational Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.Mourning in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432199to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mourning in Malmö
Series: #7 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Release date: July 14, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Police & Detective
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Shortly after Inspector Anita Sundström's mother's death, Anita is called to an apartment where an eighty-year-old man with dementia has tried to kill his wife. The case sparks off a renewed interest in the death of her father, who was lost in the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster. It's not long before she discovers that she...
2020-07-1410h 23
Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMourning in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mourning in Malmö Series: #7 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 14, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Shortly after Inspector Anita Sundström's mother's death, Anita is called to an apartment where an eighty-year-old man with dementia has tried to kill his wife. The case sparks off a renewed interest in the death of her father, who was lost in the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster. It's not long before she discovers tha...
2020-07-1430 minDownload Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMourning in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432199to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mourning in Malmö
Series: #7 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Release date: July 14, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Shortly after Inspector Anita Sundström's mother's death, Anita is called to an apartment where an eighty-year-old man with dementia has tried to kill his wife. The case sparks off a renewed interest in the death of her father, who was lost in the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster. It's not long before she discovers that she...
2020-07-1410h 23
Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMalice in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392492to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Malice in Malmö
Series: #6 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Release date: September 18, 2019
Genres: Police & Detective
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When a leading Malmö entrepreneur turns up bound and gagged in a city-centre cemetery, the Skåne County Police have no obvious clues as to who is behind the kidnapping. More complications arise when a second leading business figure is snatched and Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues are under pressure not only to find the victim, but also catch the g...
2019-09-1811h 14
Get Your Favorite Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMalice in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Malice in Malmö Series: #6 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 18, 2019 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When a leading Malmö entrepreneur turns up bound and gagged in a city-centre cemetery, the Skåne County Police have no obvious clues as to who is behind the kidnapping. More complications arise when a second leading business figure is snatched and Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues are under pressure not only to find the victim, but also catch...
2019-09-1830 min
Press Play On The Sensational Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!Menace in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391003to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Menace in Malmö
Series: #5 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
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Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Release date: July 30, 2019
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On a late summer evening, the train from Malmö to Ystad is involved in a crash. The deaths at the scene seem straightforward until one of the bodies is identified as a well-known conman. It's someone who had crossed swords with Chief Inspector Moberg in the past and he is keen to find out what the dead man was up to. Bef...
2019-07-3010h 27
Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMenace in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Menace in Malmö Series: #5 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 30, 2019 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: On a late summer evening, the train from Malmö to Ystad is involved in a crash. The deaths at the scene seem straightforward until one of the bodies is identified as a well-known conman. It's someone who had crossed swords with Chief Inspector Moberg in the past and he is keen to find out what the dead man was up to...
2019-07-3030 minGet Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMenace in Malmö by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391003to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Menace in Malmö
Series: #5 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Release date: July 30, 2019
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
On a late summer evening, the train from Malmö to Ystad is involved in a crash. The deaths at the scene seem straightforward until one of the bodies is identified as a well-known conman. It's someone who had crossed swords with Chief Inspector Moberg in the past and he is keen to find out what the dead man was up to. Bef...
2019-07-3010h 27
Enjoy A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Transformative.Midnight in Malmö: The Fourth Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314003to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Midnight in Malmö: The Fourth Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery
Series: #4 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Release date: October 29, 2015
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When a woman is stabbed to death while jogging in Malmö's main park, the Criminal Investigation Squad needs to discover who she is before the case can properly get under way. Soon they realize that the victim had flown in from Switzerland, and with links to important people in the city, she wasn't everything she...
2015-10-2910h 24
Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMidnight in Malmö: The Fourth Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midnight in Malmö: The Fourth Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery Series: #4 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 29, 2015 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When a woman is stabbed to death while jogging in Malmö's main park, the Criminal Investigation Squad needs to discover who she is before the case can properly get under way. Soon they realize that the victim had flown in from Switzerland, and with links to important people in the city, she wasn't eve...
2015-10-2930 min
Unlock Into A Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook On A Rainy Day.Missing in Malmö: The Third Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314002to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Missing in Malmö: The Third Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery
Series: #3 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Release date: August 6, 2015
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing persons case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared. But when the mysteries take a sinister turn...
2015-08-0610h 12
Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMissing in Malmö: The Third Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/314002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Missing in Malmö: The Third Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery Series: #3 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 6, 2015 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing persons case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared. But when the mysteries take a sini...
2015-08-0630 min
Start The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Ground-Breaking!Murder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236377to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Murder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery
Series: #2 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Release date: June 16, 2015
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When Inspector Anita Sundström discovers that a gunman is targeting immigrants in Malmö and that the charismatic head of an advertising agency has been found dead in his shower, she is determined to investigate. Unfortunately, she is sidelined by her antagonistic boss, who has given her the task of finding a stolen painting by a on...
2015-06-1610h 08
Access Top-Rated Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMurder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Murder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery Series: #2 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 16, 2015 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When Inspector Anita Sundström discovers that a gunman is targeting immigrants in Malmö and that the charismatic head of an advertising agency has been found dead in his shower, she is determined to investigate. Unfortunately, she is sidelined by her antagonistic boss, who has given her the task of finding a stolen painting by a...
2015-06-1630 minAccess Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMurder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236377to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Murder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery
Series: #2 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Release date: June 16, 2015
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When Inspector Anita Sundström discovers that a gunman is targeting immigrants in Malmö and that the charismatic head of an advertising agency has been found dead in his shower, she is determined to investigate. Unfortunately, she is sidelined by her antagonistic boss, who has given her the task of finding a stolen painting by a on...
2015-06-1610h 08
Power-Up With A Vivid Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Meet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234452to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Meet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery
Series: #1 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: May 26, 2015
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
A British journalist is invited to Malmö to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden’s leading film directors. When he discovers the director’s glamorous film star wife dead in her apartment, the Skåne County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case. Among the investigating team is Inspe...
2015-05-269h 17
Access Top-Rated Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMeet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery Series: #1 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom Author: Torquil MacLeod Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 26, 2015 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: A British journalist is invited to Malmö to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden’s leading film directors. When he discovers the director’s glamorous film star wife dead in her apartment, the Skåne County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case. Among the investigating team is...
2015-05-2630 minAccess Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveMeet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery by Torquil MacLeodPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234452to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Meet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery
Series: #1 of Inspector Anita Sundstrom
Author: Torquil MacLeod
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: May 26, 2015
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
A British journalist is invited to Malmö to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden’s leading film directors. When he discovers the director’s glamorous film star wife dead in her apartment, the Skåne County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case. Among the investigating team is Inspe...
2015-05-269h 17