Benito Mussolini’s unsuccessful dictatorship
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1883 Benito Mussolini was born. He allied Italy with Nazi Germany and Japan... Read More
Sartre, De Beauvoir and “Hell is other people”
On this day in 1980 Jean Paul Sartre, philosopher and Existentialist, died in Paris. He refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature saying that he... Read More
Robert Graves brings ancient Rome to life
On this day in 1985 the English writer and poet Robert Graves died aged 90. Graves was a classical scholar and his historical novels I... Read More
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s life of exile
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1970 the Russian dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for... Read More