The Romantic Road
A Journey Through the Literatures of Europe, BBC Radio 3
- The Spain of Cervantes
- A Fine Thief: Alain-René Lesage
- Heinrich von Kleist: “with cut eyelids”
- The Netherlands: does Dutch literature exist?
- Boredom and Longing: the state of Denmark
- The Stones of Portugal
- Austria: a century without qualities
- Europe’s Crossroads: the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Italy: a European polyphony
- Greece: the universality of little places
- Alexander Pushkin: a secret freedom
- Ukraine’s Three Worlds
- The Polish Complex
- Hungary: standing up to history
- Iceland: all time is eternally present
- Sweden: literature is news that stays news
- The Baltic states: Quixote is dead! Long live Quixote!
- The north Balkans: “who the hell would seek out literature in this country?”
- Albania & Kosovo: a sane sense of freedom
- What are novels for? with A S Byatt, Philip Hensher, Ingo Schulze, Slavenka Drákulic
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