Misha Glenny
speaker
1,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.
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Long forgotten, in the 1970s her reputation and works were experiencing a most deserved revival thanks to the powerful injection of feminism in the theatrical and academic worlds.
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She was quite simply one of the most influential and popular playwrights of the Restoration period in England.
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This was a joyous response in the arts to the end of the rather dead hand of life under Oliver Cromwell's protectorate and the return of the monarchy in 1660 under Charles II.
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Since the 1970s, Ben's place in the world of academia has been secure.
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Yet in the wider world, she remains relatively unknown, still living in the shadow of playwrights like Congreve and Dryden.
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This is disappointing, because as Melvin Bragg's guests demonstrate in this episode, Ben was not only a hugely successful dramatist, novelist and poet...
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She forged a career and gained recognition as the first woman to make her living from writing, a world which, until the Restoration, women had been prevented from inhabiting and exploring.
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That among her other career paths she indulged in espionage only adds to the biography of this truly remarkable woman.
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And even though back in the day I actually read and studied Ben, this episode opened my eyes to many of the things I had missed.
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I hope it'll do the same for you.
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Enjoy listening.
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This is In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 and this is one of more than a thousand episodes you can find in the In Our Time archive.
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A reading list for this edition can be found in the episode description wherever you're listening.
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I hope you enjoy the programme.
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Hello.
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Botticelli's Venus emerging from a giant scallop shell.
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Vishnu's sacred horn, Panchajanya.
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The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl's talisman cut from a conch shell.
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Seashells appear in the mythologies of countless cultures.
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The urge to collect shells seems to be as old as our species.
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