🔗 Mosaic Depicting Two Flip-Flop–Like Sandals Discovered at the Roman Villa del Casale in Sicily

> two sandals whose resemblance to modern flip-flops has surprised researchers

🔗 A Span of Autonomy

Available on Mixcloud

🔗 ‘I wanted to be Nina Simone’: Jeff Buckley documentary shows female influences

🔗 DH Lawrence Society

The DH Lawrence Society is based in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, where Lawrence was born in 1885.

🔗 James Walker

via D.H.Lawrence Society

🔗 nntk.net

No Need to Know

🔗 A Span of Autonomy

An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective.

Broadcast on Resonance FM at 12pm (BST) on Thursday 14th August 2025 and then available to listen on Mixcloud.

🔗 8 Classic Negroni Variations

The Americano cocktail recipe is made up of just two ingredients; Campari and sweet vermouth.

🔗 ‘Nobody makes a record like that for the money’: how Gang of Four made Entertainment!

🔗 Alfred Brendel obituary

🔗 ‘A wonderful mystery to be solved’: search begins in Dorset for ‘the Mother of all tanks’

🔗 The Doors: ‘You could call us erotic politicians’

🔗 ‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom

🔗 Inside the world’s largest archeology museum - the Grand Egyptian Museum in pictures

🔗 Guy Garvey on Elbow’s One Day Like This: ‘Every week, someone tells me they got married to it’

🔗 First English cheese treatise digitized, transcribed

🔗 Dosso Dossi

Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome

🔗 Orwell’s Library

🔗 Tintoretto’s monumental Crucifixion restored

🔗 Ringworld: Larry Niven discusses Dyson Spheres, the science of Ringworld and success

🔗 A dish that you know is good for you - by Irina Georgescu

🔗 ‘Alcohol became a second self to blame for my desire’: how drinking fuelled my experiences of sex

🔗 What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt — a Backlisted podcast episode 📚

Elif Shafak and Lyndsey Stonebridge join John and Andy for a discussion of the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the historian and philosopher whose books include 'The Human Condition', 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' and 'Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'.

🔗 ‘Much darker than Pride and Prejudice!’: authors pick their favourite Jane Austen novel