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Yukio Mishima, de son vrai nom Kimitake Hiraoka, est l’un des plus grands écrivains japonais du XXe siècle. Né en 1925, il devient célèbre après la Seconde Guerre mondiale grâce à des romans comme Le Pavillon d’or ou la tétralogie La Mer de la fertilité. Son œuvre explore la beau ...  Show more

L’histoire ressemble à une fable surréaliste, et pourtant, elle est parfaitement vraie. Elle se déroule en 1965, à une époque où Dalí est déjà une star mondiale, conscient que sa vie elle-même est devenue une œuvre d’art.Cette année-là, la compagnie Air India souhaite renforcer s ...  Show more

In the US, the 1960s were a crucible of culture -- college students, veterans, the disadvantaged and activists across the country sought to overthrow the status quo and build their own vision of a better world. This period in time produced some of the most influential art, music ...  Show more

In 1968, Jingyu Li and her parents were among hundreds of thousands of Chinese people sent to labour camps during Mao Zedong’s so-called cultural revolution.The aim was to re-educate those not thought to be committed to Chairman’s Mao drive to preserve and purify communism in Chi ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ...  Show more