New Generation Thinkers: Nancy Cunard - The Rebellious Heiress
Sandeep Parmar explores the life of Nancy Cunard of the famous shipping family. She was a poet and anti-fascist, yet was disinherited and seen as the black sheep of her family.
For nearly 200 years, the name Cunard has evoked glamorous images of sleek cruise ships and transatlantic sea travel. Yet the legacy of the Cunard family's black sheep, the disinherited granddaughter Nancy Cunard, is less well-known.
Sandeep Parmar of the University of Liverpool explores the tragic life of this scion of a wealthy family who became a revolutionary poet, publisher, modernist muse, anti-fascist and anti-racism activist.
The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.
The Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Sandeep Parmar discussing her research you can download The Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast.
Producer: Torquil Macleod.
Last on
![]()
Provocative debate, new ideas, music and performance
![]()
At Free Thinking Festival 2015
Broadcast
- Thu 12 Nov 2015 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
Featured in...
![]()
Tearing Up The Rulebook—Free Thinking
Programmes and clips from the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival of ideas, 6-8 November, 2015
The Arts & Ideas Podcast
You can download all the past episodes of Radio 3's Free Thinking
Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019
Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional
Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many
We examine the fast-changing relationship between the individual & the crowd
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE all programmes, images, clips & features from 2017's festival
Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life