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*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the...

Pour sa création, le festival « Autour de Mme de Staël » a invité le spectacle d'Alain Carré mettant en scène à partir de leur correspondance amoureuse, Benjamin Constant et Germaine de Staël. Elle naît à Paris en 1766. Il naît à Lausanne en 1767. Ils se rencontrent en 1794 et ne se quitteront plus jusqu'à la mort de Germaine en 1817. Dans une admiration réciproque, la plume à la main, ils partageront et façonneront les idées littéraires, philosophiques et politiques de cette époque mouvementée que fut l'après-révolution française, la Terreur, le Directoire, l'Empire.

Zephaniah transformed performance poetry when he came onto the scene in the 1980s and has gone on to convey political and societal messages through his work. He’s also written numerous novels, children’s books and plays as well as releasing multiple albums. A multitalented man with an uneasy childhood and mixed up teen years, he has plenty to say in his autobiography. When he came to the studio, he spoke about overcoming his shyness, writing about his mum and what the West can learn from the rest of the world about peace.

In 30 feinsinnigen Skizzen erinnert er sich an seine Kindheit im wilhelminischen Berlin – an Straßen, Plätze, Räume, Geräusche, Gerüche und Gefühle. Diese Erinnerungsminiaturen sind keine lineare Lebensgeschichte, sondern literarische Momentaufnahmen – zwischen sinnlicher Beobachtung und philosophischer Reflexion, zwischen persönlichem Empfinden und kollektiver Erinnerung. Ein Klassiker der modernen Erinnerungsliteratur, geschrieben in poetischer Prosa, voller Melancholie, Schärfe und Tiefe.

Award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger Jonny Benjamin talks to us about the release of his debut audiobook, The Stranger on the Bridge. Jonny first emerged in the public eye in 2014 after launching the #FindMike campaign, and you might remember him as the real-life protagonist of It’s A Wonderful Life, saved from the grips of depression not by an angel but by a stranger on a bridge.

The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor's...

Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones literarias y experiencias personales. ¿Lo real está más allá de nuestro alcance? ¿La verdad y la locura son síntomas de la misma enfermedad? Labatut utiliza un cuadro del Bosco, el terror atávico de Lovecraft, la lógica radical de David Hilbert y la delirante iluminación que tuvo Philip K. Dick para hablar de la extraña textura que está adquiriendo la experiencia humana.