Past Programs
Lifestyle and Leisure - 2008
Standard Operating Procedure - Philip Gourevitch Read Transcript
08/07/2008
Philip Gourevitch was covering the 2004 presidential election for the New Yorker magazine in the year the Abu Ghraib photographs came out showing the abuse of prisoners by American soldiers. He expected that this would change the nature of the conversation about America's conduct of the Iraq war. This didn't happen and ultimately only a handful of low-ranking soldiers were convicted of abusing prisoners. When filmmaker Errol Morris began to send him transcripts of interviews he had done with some of those soldiers Philip Gourevitch decided to work on a book with Morris looking at who and what was hidden by the framing. The book, like the film, is called Standard Operating Procedure.
History, geography and culture of the novel Read Transcript
16/03/2008
Franco Moretti, professor of literature at Stanford University, has an innovative approach to examining fashions and styles in literature. It's led to accusations of literary heresy, but Franco Moretti maintains his way of understanding literary history helps the rest of us understand why Sherlock Holmes has endured -- while others of his time gather cobwebs in musty libraries.
The history, geography and culture of the novel Read Transcript
28/02/2008
Franco Moretti, professor of literature at Stanford University, has an innovative approach to examining fashions and styles in literature. It's led to accusations of literary heresy, but Franco Moretti maintains his way of understanding literary history helps the rest of us understand why Sherlock Holmes has endured -- while others of his time gather cobwebs in musty libraries.
