La Nuit étoilée, par Vincent van Gogh

L’histoire ressemble à une invention. Et pourtant, elle dit tout de la radicalité du surréalisme.Début des années 1930, à Paris. Le mouvement mené par André Breton ne veut plus seulement produire des tableaux ou des poèmes. Il veut provoquer des chocs, faire dérailler le réel, ré ...  Show more

L’écriture automatique est une pratique qui consiste à écrire sans contrôle conscient, en laissant venir les mots librement, sans réfléchir, sans corriger, sans censurer. Elle est surtout associée au mouvement surréaliste, au début du XXe siècle, et devient l’un de ses outils maj ...  Show more

The Suez Canal was once one of the busiest global shipping routes – a third of the world's shipping containers normally pass through it. Since the Houthis began to attack passing ships last year, the volume of vessels going through has declined rapidly.The canal is run by the Egy ...  Show more

A 50-mile man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the creation of the Panama Canal was arguably the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen. But its journey from concept to completion was anything but simple, as it failed repeatedly, and pass ...  Show more

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ...  Show more

On today's show, we look at two indicators of the economic disruptions of the war in Gaza and try to trace how far they will reach. We start in the Red Sea, a crucial link in the global supply chain connecting to the Suez Canal, with around 15% of the world's shipping passing thr ...  Show more