A Bit Lit

By A Bit Lit

As much of the world went into lockdown in spring 2020, we wanted to provide a platform for research and creativity, championing the brilliant arts and knowledge-making going on in the world right now... more

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How many episodes does A Bit Lit have?

The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.

A Bit Lit episodes:

March 12, 2021 RJ City tells Andy Kesson about stories, expectations & audiences
The wrestler, writer and comedian RJ City tells Andy Kesson about storytelling with the body, playing against genre conventions and wrestling as a kind of exploration of bodily intimacy and care. Basil Fawlty, Roland Barthes and Bertolt Brecht also featur
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34min
March 12, 2021 Samira Ahmed on her broadcasting career, the news & the recent history of critical thinking
The broadcaster Samira Ahmed tells us about her career covering international news and culture, and reflects on the relationship between 'hard news' and cultural events. We move from the UK culture secretary to the art of Persia, O.J. Simpson to Madonna,
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35min
March 12, 2021 Miles Grier on inkface, blackface, Othello and fraternities of white men
Miles Grier is a book and theatre historian, and tells us about the place of Shakespeare’s Othello in a ‘long moment of shared vernacular literacy as a colonising tool’. Grier insists that this is a play that ‘implicitly summons an audience of white exper
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44min

FAQs about A Bit Lit:

How many episodes does A Bit Lit have?

The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.