Herman Melville
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
29 Jul 2019
Kennedy sips the beauty of Lake Chalice, learns about survivor cars at the Picton ferry terminal and discusses the whakapapa of Queequeg for the bicentenary of Herman Melville's birth. Audio
Philip Hensher: waltz through time
26 Jul 2014
Professor of Creative Writing at University of Bath Spa, and author of short stories, non-fiction and seven novels, most recently the novel, The Emperor Waltz. Audio
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop
17 May 2014
As a musical genre built on wordplay, hip hop is home to some of the wordiest lyricists about. New York data scientist Matthew Daniels took it upon himself to work out just how wordy rappers are… Audio