Bashir Abu-Manneh is a reader in postcolonial literature and director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent.

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Emily Wilson joins Tom to talk through Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of the Odyssey and look at the compositional history of Homer’s poem.

In the early 1860s, Tennyson was at the height of his celebrity. His great elegy, In Memoriam (1850), seemed to have captured the spiritual unease of the age, and the first instalment of Idylls of the ...