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English Stitch

New series! English Stitch: Stuart Hall Unpicks the Nation. What is English Culture? Over ten weeks Professor Stuart Hall, the godfather of Cultural Studies, takes us on a trip through the national imagination. Hosted by critic and writer K Biswas, the series features never-before-heard archival recordings from seminars delivered in Naples during the mid-1980s, the height of Thatcherism (a term which Hall himself coined). In the Resonance studio, the thinker's friends and contemporaries, and newer voices inspired by his work, examine his theories, and unravel the social and cultural fabric of the nation. Episode 1: What is Cultural Studies? Beginning with its birth in the 1960s, we discuss English respectability, the relationship between class and power, and the pleasures of the text. Biz is joined by feminist icon Hilary Wainwright and literary critic Leo Robson, along with regular guests Nick Beech and Daniel McNeil, as they talk through everything from the academy's influence over popular culture to the work of the Greater London Council. English Stitch has been made possible with the collaboration of the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham. To learn about the project and access more of Stuart Hall’s archive, join the mailing list: https://stuarthallarchive.bham.ac.uk/mailing-list/. [Repeats Thursday 4am.]

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