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Evan Hayles Gledhill on the BBC

Evan Hayles Gledhill could be found chatting on BBC radio Berkshire about the Gothic this week, just in time for Halloween. It is about an hour into this link on iPlayer: Here’s the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034rmls  

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Lucy Bending on the BBC

Lucy will be speaking on the R4 programme, ‘The Language of Pain’, this Saturday, 2nd May, at 8pm. She plans to talk about Fanny Burney’s account of her mastectomy, carried out before the invention of anaesthetics, and Alphonse Daudet’s metaphors … Continue reading

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The BBC celebrates Ladybird books

Dr Neil Cocks writes: The BBC has recently joined in the centenary celebration of Ladybird books. Here at Reading we are fortunate to hold a unique archive of Ladybird material, including the largest collection of its original art work.  In 2012, … Continue reading

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The BBC at MERL: delighting visitors with our Special Collections

On Wednesday 17th September 2014 the BBC broadcast stories from theArchives and Special Collections at MERL. The Celebrity Antiques Road Trip team visited the Evacuee archive and the Mills & Boon records, part of the British Printing and Publishing collection. Dr Martin … Continue reading

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Nixon on Beckett on the BBC

Tonight, at 22:45 on Radio 3, Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon will be talking on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written. Find out more by following this link.

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