{"product_id":"book-guyg","title":"Minds at War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were irrevocably changed, including many writers and artists upon whose oeuvre it left an indelible mark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis captivating series examines the impact of the war on artists and thinkers through the prism of their great works. In each episode, a leading figure from the worlds of science, culture and the arts reflects on a single iconic piece, and discusses how the events of 1914-18 shaped its creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 29 artworks in this collection comprise paintings, plays, books, films, sculptures and cartoons. Ian Christie appraises Eisenstein's seminal Soviet drama \u003ci\u003eBattleship Potemkin\u003c\/i\u003e; Dame Gillian Beer considers Virginia Woolf's masterpiece \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e; Fintan O'Toole decodes James Joyce's epic modernist novel, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e; and Dr Heather Jones looks at the controversy and war connections around Marcel Duchamp's notorious 'Fountain'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKey texts such as Sigmund Freud's twin essays \u003ci\u003eThoughts for the Time on War and Death\u003c\/i\u003e; Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Lectures; and Siegfried Sassoon's celebrated 1917 protest letter to \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e are analysed by Dr Michael Shapira, Santanu Das and Joanna Bourke; and a panoply of other pieces, among them Kathe Kollwitz's 'The Grieving Parents', Sean O'Casey's \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Tassie\u003c\/i\u003e and Rudyard Kipling's \u003ci\u003eEpitaphs\u003c\/i\u003e are discussed by experts including Ruth Padel, Elizabeth Kuti and Janet Montefiore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful, moving, thought-provoking and often shocking, these landmark works are all, in their very different ways, a response to the horrors of World War I and its aftermath - one that vividly demonstrates the transformative effects the conflict had on the collective artistic psyche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eProduction credits\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented by Allan Little, Sara LeFanu, Martin Rowson, Prof David Edgerton, Michal Shapira, Dr Heather Jones, Ian Christie, Lyse Doucet, Santanu Das, Ruth Padel, Arthur Smith, Prof Gillian Beer, Richard Cork, Sasha Dugdale, Fintan O'Toole, Gerald Dawe, John D McHugh, Elizabeth Kuti, Tarek Osman, Joanna Bourke, Elif Shafak, Dr Imaobong Umoren, Janet Montefiore, Jane Potter and Alex Walton\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Beaty Rubens, Benedict Warren, Emma Kingsley, Simon Elmes and Sarah Bowen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eEpisode list:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.     Paths of Glory                                                             \u003cbr\u003e2.     Non-Combatants and Others                                     \u003cbr\u003e3.     Der Krieg                                                                     \u003cbr\u003e4.     The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science            \u003cbr\u003e5.     Thoughts for the Times on War and Death                \u003cbr\u003e6.     Le Feu                                                                         \u003cbr\u003e7.     Battleship Potemkin                                                    \u003cbr\u003e8.     Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort               \u003cbr\u003e9.     The Broken Wing                                                        \u003cbr\u003e10.  The Grieving Parents                                                  \u003cbr\u003e11.  Tagore's Nobel Lectures                                             \u003cbr\u003e12.  Tzara's Dada Manifesto                                              \u003cbr\u003e13.  Woolf's Mrs Dalloway                                                 \u003cbr\u003e14.  Parade                                                                        \u003cbr\u003e15.  Akhmatova's July 1914                                               \u003cbr\u003e16.  James Joyce's Ulysses                                              \u003cbr\u003e17.  Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September                    \u003cbr\u003e18.  Francis Ledwidge's poem O'Connell Street               \u003cbr\u003e19.  Father Browne's Photograph of a Wounded Soldier \u003cbr\u003e20.  Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie                             \u003cbr\u003e21.  Marcel Duchamp                                                         \u003cbr\u003e22.  Gertrude Bell                                                              \u003cbr\u003e23.  Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times                   \u003cbr\u003e24.  Mata Hari's Final Performance                                   \u003cbr\u003e25.  Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump                       \u003cbr\u003e26.  WEB Dubois' Returning Soldiers                                \u003cbr\u003e27.  Rudyard Kipling's Epitaphs                                         \u003cbr\u003e28.  Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone                           \u003cbr\u003e29. Isobel Rae        \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49356725518640,"sku":"BDguyg","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/342204-guyg-Square.jpg?v=1734412769","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-guyg","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}