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Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, is the author or editor of ten books, including Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Pa
Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin Jared Hosein discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Kevin Jared Hosein is a Caribbean novelist. He has also worked as a secondary school Biology teacher for over a decade. He was named overall winner of the Commonwealth Short S
Rosie Andrews
Rosie Andrews discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Rosie Andrews was born and grew up in Liverpool, the third of twelve children. She studied history at Cambridge before becoming an English teacher. She lives in Hertfordshire with
Raymond Baker
Raymond Baker discusses with Ivan six aspects of financial secrecy which should be better known.Raymond Baker is the Founding President of Global Financial Integrity and the author of Capitalisms Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Mark
Steve Cross
Steve Cross discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Dr Steve Cross helps experts to become the most fun, engaging and effective versions of themselves. He's a comedian and trainer and has previously failed at careers in science, museu
Kia Abdullah
Kia Abdullah discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.Kia Abdullah is a bestselling author and travel writer. Her novels include Take It Back, a Guardian and Telegraph thriller of the year; Truth Be Told, which was shortlist
Twentieth Century In Reverse
Do you ever have trouble remembering PIN numbers? Ivan Wise teaches you how: all you have to do is remember a hundred facts about the twentieth century and the exact year in which they happened.Dolly the sheep https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life
Alexandra Popoff
Alexandra Popoff is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is an expert on Russian literature and cultural history and the author of five literary biographies, including the award-winning Sophia Tolstoy and Vasily Grossm
Christmas Music
Ivan Wise discusses Christmas music that should be better known.Christmas is our most sturdily conservative tradition, and this December you will hear once again the same music that you have heard every other Christmas. The usual suspects dominate playli
Francis Hamel
Francis Hamel discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.Francis Hamel is a British painter based in the UK with studios in Oxfordshire and Le Marche, Italy. He is known for landscapes and portraits as well as finely structured