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Shahrazad Ali (born April 27, 1954) is an American author of several books, including a paperback called The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. The book was controversial bringing "forth community forums, pickets and heated arguments among Black people in many parts" of the US when it was published in 1989.

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Hannah Arendt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored 'the banality of evil'.

2 February 2017

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Featuring: Lyndsey Stonebridge, Frisbee Sheffield, Robert Eaglestone

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Philosophy Princeton University faculty German political philosophers Existentialists 20th-century American women writers Intellectual historians, University of Chicago faculty University of Marburg alumni Jewish existentialists Women religious writers Philosophers of law Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Social philosophers Philosophy writers Philosophers of technology American political philosophers 20th-century German women writers German women philosophers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Philosophers of culture The New School faculty 20th-century American essayists Exilliteratur writers Jewish agnostics German agnostics German Ashkenazi Jews American Ashkenazi Jews, American Zionists, American agnostics, German Zionists 20th-century German philosophers 20th-century American philosophers 20th-century German non-fiction writers German ethicists, German philosophers of education Heidelberg University alumni Political philosophers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Philosophers of science Scholars of antisemitism Philosophers of history American philosophers of education
Hildegard of Bingen

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval mystic, composer and writer Hildegard of Bingen.

26 June 2014

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Featuring: Miri Rubin, William Flynn, Almut Suerbaum

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History Medieval Latin-language poets Women religious writers Catholic philosophers Manuscript illuminators Doctors of the Church Anglican saints Creators of writing systems German classical composers Roman Catholic mystics Women mystics 12th-century writers in Latin Benedictine philosophers Herbalists German women philosophers Angelic visionaries Mystic poets 12th-century Christian saints Pre-Reformation Anglican saints
Julian of Norwich

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anchoress, who is probably the earliest named woman writer in English, and her celebrated work on her visions of the suffering of Christ.

19 October 2023

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Featuring: Katherine Lewis, Philip Sheldrake, Laura Kalas

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Religion Medieval English theologians Women religious writers 15th-century English writers Writers from Norwich English religious writers Women mystics 14th-century Christian mystics, 14th-century English women writers, 15th-century English women writers, 15th-century deaths, English Catholic mystics, Middle English literature
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe (1373-1438), the English mystic who went to Jerusalem and dictated her life story, said to be the first autobiography in English.

2 June 2016

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Featuring: Miri Rubin, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Bale

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History Writers from King's Lynn Women religious writers English Roman Catholics 14th-century Christian mystics, 14th-century English women writers, 15th-century English women writers, 15th-century deaths, English Catholic mystics, Middle English literature 15th-century English writers Anglican saints English autobiographers English religious writers Roman Catholic mystics Women mystics English women non-fiction writers Female saints of medieval England Pre-Reformation Anglican saints
Olympe de Gouges

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas and works of the Frenchwoman who wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman in 1791 during the French Revolution

21 April 2022

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Featuring: Catriona Seth, Katherine Astbury, Sanja Perovic

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Culture Women religious writers 18th-century French philosophers French abolitionists Executed French women, French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution French women philosophers Executed writers Executed philosophers French women dramatists and playwrights 18th-century philosophers French deists Women in the French Revolution Deist philosophers 18th-century French women writers French political philosophers