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Shakespeare's Sisters

The Essay

Lucy Powell, University of Oxford Leverhulme Fellow and former New Generation Thinker, explores the work of brilliant siblings through the lens of their relatedness to genius.

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All available episodes (5 total)

  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  • Watch: My Deaf World

    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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