What did you say?
Kenneth Rexroth

How many stopped writing at thirty?
How many died of prefrontal
Lobotomies in the Communist Party?
How many are lost in the back wards
Of provincial madhouses?
How many on the advice of
Their psychoanalysts, decided
A business career was best after all?

- Kenneth Rexroth

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Conversations on Communism

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This podcast series is co-produced by Elinor Taylor (Westminster) and Henry Stead.
Transcripts of the podcasts are available by following the links below.

    1. Frank Walbank: Polybius and Communism — An interview with Robert Lister (KCL).
    2. Cultures of Communism — Side A / Side B — An interview with Prof. Colin Chambers (Kingston).
    3. Jack Lindsay: From the Wild Surf — An interview with Helen Lindsay.
    4. George Thomson: Aeschylus and Communism — Side A / Side B — An interview with Prof. Richard Seaford (Exeter) and Dr. Ben Harker (Manchester).
    5. Communism and Jazz —  Side A / Side B — An interview with Prof. Kevin Morgan and Brian Blain.
    6. Listen to Jack — An Interview with Jack Lindsay (1970) recorded by Hazel de Berg — Part 1.

A Defiant Scottish Classicism

 

Left in Translation

These recordings may be in any modern language, although Russian and English will (at first) loom largest. They are translations of the ancient Greek and Roman classics made either by left wing translators, or created/published under communism. These two categories are not always mutually exclusive. If you would like to contribute by adding your voice to the collection, please get in touch!