Podcast appearances and mentions of sophie coulombeau

“A diary is not only a text: it is a behaviour, a way of life, of which the text is a by-product", says the French theorist Philipe Lejeune. From ancient Babylon to journalling today, politicians' jottings and the notes made by eighteenth century writers like Mary Hamilton and Fanny Burney. Matthew Sweet discusses diaries with curator Irving Finkel, literary historian Sophie Coulombeau, political commentator Michael Crick and writer Oliver Burkeman, whose latest book is Meditation For Mortals, plus the philosopher Maximillian De Gaynesford. And, as Radio 4 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Russell Hoban with a reading of his novel Turtle Diary as Book At Bedtime, writer Sonia Overall discusses his work. Producer: Luke Mulhall

The impact of light bulbs on cities like New York and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century and the way modernist poets like Mina Loy and Lola Ridge depicted this, is at the heart of research being done by Dr Nicoletta Asciuto. For this New Thinking conversation hosted by Dr Sophie Coulombeau, she joins Dr Jaqueline Yallop, whose book Into the Dark looks at living in dark places and at experiences including "sundowning" - experienced by some people diagnosed with dementia, this is a change in behaviour that occurs in the evening, around dusk as darkness grows, causing agitation and anxiety. When Jacqueline Yallop's father was diagnosed with dementia, he began experiencing exactly that, which prompted Jacqueline's profound self-reflection on the world's relationship to the dark. Dr Jacqueline Yallop is an award-winning author of fiction and creative non-fiction, and her book Into the Dark explores darkness in science, literature, art, philosophy and history. She teaches creative writing at Aberystwyth University. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York. She is currently working on her first monograph, Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry, 1909-1930 which discusses the impact of new lighting technologies on the birth of new avant-garde and modernist poetics. Dr Sophie Coulombeau is an author and academic based at the University of York, and was chosen as a 2014 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and AHRC to put research on the radio.This New Thinking episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. You can find more on BBC Sounds and in a collection on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website under the title New Research including conversations about music and disability, language learning, sign language, green thinking and neglected women artists.Producer in Salford: Lola Grieve

Jane Eyre and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte both refer to the unrest in Yorkshire which took place in the early years of the nineteenth century as new technology threatened jobs in the mills. Literary historian Sophie Coulombeau discusses parallels between the Luddites and concerns over AI now, and looks at what is real and what is fictional in the novels studied by Jonathan Brockbank of the University of York. Tania Shew shares some of the accounts of strikes outside the workplace which she has uncovered in her research. These include a charity worker strike and school strikes organised by pupils in 1911. How far do they strike a chord with more modern strike action? Dr Jonathan Brockbank is a Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York who is exploring Luddite protests and their depiction in literature. Dr Tania Shew is the holder of the Isaiah Berlin Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford researching the women's suffrage movement. You can hear her discussing her work on suffrage sex strikes in this episode of New Thinking called Women's History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bsjyr8 Dr Sophie Coulombeau teaches literature at the University of York and has published articles on the writing of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Montagu, William Godwin and Jeremy Bentham. She is editing a volume of essays, Mary Hamilton and Her Circles, alongside colleagues working on the “Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers” project at the John Rylands Library and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker on the scheme which promotes research on the radio. This New Thinking episode of the Arts & Ideas podcast was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UKRI. You can find more collected on the Free Thinking programme website of BBC Radio 3 under New Research or if you sign up for the Arts & Ideas podcast you can hear discussions about a range of topics.

Music making, fashion and behaviour at court in the Georgian period are the focus of new research by Sophie Coulombeau, Mary-Jannet Leith and Lizzy Buckle. As Bridgerton launches a spin off series about Queen Charlotte and an exhibition opens at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace called Style and Society, Shahidha Bari hosts a discussion about soirées, soprano stardom and sexual scandals. Producer: Julian Siddle A Georgian inspired episode of Radio 3's weekly curation of Words and Music is available on BBC Sounds until May 25th 2023 You can find other conversations about Georgian history on BBC Sounds and Free Thinking and available as the Arts and Ideas podcast Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment heard from Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Sophie Coulombeau, Ian Kelly and Hannah Greig https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v3c Harlots and 18th-century working women https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rdfz Samuel Johnson's Circle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vq3w The Value of Gossip https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwfb 18th century crime and punishment https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hysp Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians runs at the Queen's Gallery until October 8th Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story launches on May 4th on Netflix

As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf's writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness. Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity. Author and academic Sophie Coulombeau completes these imaginative journeys with her newborn baby navigating York - a city and self once familiar, but now elusive and uncanny. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

The best selling thriller writer, Ruth Ware and the editor of the popular Letters of Note anthologies, Shaun Usher, join Sophie Coulombeau to discuss letter writing in the 21st century. Producer: Zahid Warley

In this bumper episode, I'm joined by returning guests Sophie Coulombeau and Kate Lancaster. As you’d expect, there’s a lot of cringing and laughing at our v. earnest and narcissistic past selves, but there’s also quite a lot of interesting chat about our relationships with our diaries, how we spoke to them and why they were important. Special mention goes out to Sophie’s last will and testament, which is a triumph of self indulgence and true commitment to Hanson’s musical talents. Sound quality not the best on this episode, apologies, will be better next time! Email us on iwasateenagepod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @Iwasateenagepod Music: Enthusiast by Tours http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tours/Enthusiast/Tours

Sophie Coulombeau tells the story of John Trusler, an eccentric Anglican minister who was the quintessential 18th-century entrepreneur. He was a prolific author, an innovative publisher, a would-be inventor, and a 'medical gentleman' of dubious qualifications. Dismissed by many as a conman and scoundrel, today, few have heard of the man but his madcap schemes often succeeded, in different forms, a century or two later. In his efforts we can trace the ancestors of the thesaurus, the self-help book, Comic Sans, professional ghostwriting, the Society of Authors, and electrotherapy. New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that telling his story can help us to reinterpret and rehabilitate the very idea of 'failure'. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas 2018. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

Sophie Coulombeau tells the story of John Trusler, an eccentric Anglican minister who was the quintessential 18th-century entrepreneur. He was a prolific author, an innovative publisher, a would-be inventor, and a ‘medical gentleman' of dubious qualifications. Dismissed by many as a conman and scoundrel, today, few have heard of the man but his madcap schemes often succeeded, in different forms, a century or two later. In his efforts we can trace the ancestors of the thesaurus, the self-help book, Comic Sans, professional ghostwriting, the Society of Authors, and electrotherapy. New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau, from Cardiff University, argues that telling his story can help us to reinterpret and rehabilitate the very idea of 'failure'.

Sophie Coulombeau from Cardiff University delivers remarks for “Fictive Histories/Historical Fictions,” a conference held at The Huntington May 12–13, 2017.

Sophie Coulombeau, from Cardiff University and author of “Rites” (2012) and Point No Point (forthcoming), delivers a talk titled “Naming Names: Reflections on Referentiality” This talk was included in the session titled “History and Fiction: Strange Bedfellows?” Part of “Fictive Histories/Historical Fictions,” a conference held at The Huntington May 12–13, 2017.

Something borrowed, something blue, something that explains why weddings look the way they do. The Facts Our theme music is by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Christine Driscoll, Elizabeth Kulas, and Rikki Novetsky.  Sylvie Douglis and Nick Fountain field produced at the wedding. Thank you to Sue and Austin’s friends and family for letting us ask so many questions and bother you during the whole wedding. Thanks to Jorge Just -- and sorry we forgot to thank you last time, and to our beloved mix engineer Andrew Dunn. ANDREW DUNN MIXED THIS EPISODE, he always mixes our episodes, and we have not been great about remembering to tell you that! Additional production assistance came from Jacob Cruz, Emily Kennedy, Melanie Kruvelis, Sarah Melton and Sarah Stoddard. Thank you to Karen Klaiber Hersch, Gayle Strege, Patrick O’Neil, Jennifer Gellmann and Sharon Boulani. And finally, stay posted with us as we report the next season. You can follow us on Twitter, subscribe to the newsletter, or subscribe to us on your podcatcher for all our cool updates! See you in 2017! Learn More If you want to learn more Folk-Lore of Women you can access it via the wonderful Project Gutenberg at this link. Did you like learning the value of the garter industry in 1952? What a rebel - you probably need Dr. Vicki Howard's book at this link or your local library. There are a lot of wedding traditions out there!  We obviously didn't cover them all! There's a great history about women changing their last names by Dr. Sophie Coulombeau at the BBC. For some funny and insightful thoughts on the prevalence of Corinthians in wedding vows, check out this essay by Kate Braestrup at Huffington Post. Our Sponsors Blue Apron – Delivering all the fresh ingredients you need to create home-cooked meals. Click now to get your first three meals for free. Casper – Get $50 towards any Casper Mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/awesome and using the offer code “AWESOME”.

No-one attributed more importance to naming the baby than Laurence Sterne's Walter Shandy but his attempts to ensure his son's future success came to naught and all because he couldn't get his trousers on. As the 2016 list of top baby names is revealed to a waiting world, Sophie Coulombeau explores literary archives to uncover the true story of What's In a Name? Just the fears, hopes and frustrations, ambitions and proclivities of British society over the centuries.

Welcome to the final episode of our Hidden Histories series - The Great Forgetting: women writers before Austen. This week, Helen Lewis, Sophie Coulombeau and Liz Edwards discuss why so many of the era’s female writers are absent from the canon, why we think what we say is good is good, and how these writers still shape our idea of literature today? (Helen Lewis, Sophie Coulombeau, Liz Edwards) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the Hidden Histories podcast. This week, Helen Lewis and our guests Sophie Coulombeau, Liz Edwards and Jennie Batchelor thrash out the impossible question: Who is the most interesting female writer of the Eighteenth Century? Liz chooses Hester Thrale Piozzi, Sophie makes the case for Frances Burney, and Jennie opts for the elusive Anonymous. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Helen Lewis is joined by Sophie Coulombeau and Jennie Batchelor to discuss 18th century women’s involvement in radical politics. Novelists and poets from Charlotte Smith to Anna Letitia Barbau and Mary Wollstonecraft all engaged with major political questions of their day. But not everyone was confident this was a good idea. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the third episode of the new Hidden Histories podcast series – The Great Forgetting: Women Writers Before Austen. In this episode, Helen Lewis is joined by Sophie Coulombeau and Jennie Batchelor, to discuss the era’s magazines and debating societies. What did it mean to have a ladies magazine written by and for women? And how and where could women speak in public? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In part two of my interview with novelist, Sophie Coulombeau, she discusses her upcoming second novel, Point No Point, a multi-stranded political novel set in 1790s London. The first part (https://soundcloud.com/littlewritten/sophie-coulombeau-little-written-part-1) covered her award-winning first novel, Rites. Over the two parts, our topics of discussion range across the challenge of balancing multiple narrators, portrayals of Catholicism in fiction, inept internet trolls, the possibility that her new novel is an elaborate metaphor about Jeremy Corbyn (It isn't. She was joking.) and much more. We recorded this interview back in January, and Sophie mentions that she was intending to get the manuscript of her new novel to her agent in March, so hopefully the book is now a step or two closer to publication. Rites is a really intriguing (and fairly short) novel, which I read straight through from cover to cover, pausing only for as long as it took a passport control officer to verify that I was allowed into the UK. I would thoroughly recommend that everyone gives it a go. Sophie will also be a guest on the May edition of The Global Lab (@the-global-lab), so keep an eye out for that. ___________ RITES Amazon (referral link): www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/19019…mathistophele-21 TWITTER Sophie Coulombeau: www.twitter.com/SMCoulombeau Little Written: www.twitter.com/LittleWritten Thomas Oléron Evans: www.twitter.com/Mathistopheles WEBSITES Sophie Coulombeau: www.sophiecoulombeau.wordpress.com/ Little Written Podcast: www.littlewritten.co.uk

In this, the first part of a two-part interview, I talk to Sophie Coulombeau, novelist and academic, about her award-winning first novel, Rites, which was published in 2012 . The second part (https://soundcloud.com/littlewritten/sophie-coulombeau-little-written-part-2) will focus on her upcoming second novel Point No Point, which may well be out next year. Over the two parts, our topics of discussion range across the challenge of balancing multiple narrators, portrayals of Catholicism in fiction, inept internet trolls, the possibility that her new novel is an elaborate metaphor about Jeremy Corbyn (It isn't. She was joking.) and much more. Rites is a really intriguing (and fairly short) novel, which I read straight through from cover to cover, pausing only for as long as it took a passport control officer to verify that I was allowed into the UK. I would thoroughly recommend that everyone gives it a go. Sophie will also be a guest on the May edition of The Global Lab (https://soundcloud.com/the-global-lab), so keep an eye out for that. ___________ RITES Amazon (referral link): http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1901927520/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1901927520&linkCode=as2&tag=mathistophele-21 TWITTER Sophie Coulombeau: www.twitter.com/SMCoulombeau Little Written: www.twitter.com/LittleWritten Thomas Oléron Evans: www.twitter.com/Mathistopheles WEBSITES Sophie Coulombeau: https://sophiecoulombeau.wordpress.com/ Little Written Podcast: www.littlewritten.co.uk

This week, Helen Lewis is joined by Elizabeth Edwards and Sophie Coulombeau to discuss the 18th century “Bluestockings” – who were they and why did they matter? Through salons hosted by the likes of Elizabeth Montagu, “Queen of the Blues”, this small group of highly educated women helped shape a new age of sociability and creativity, ushering in greater acceptance of women as the intellectual equals of men. (Helen Lewis, Elizabeth Edwards, Sophie Coulombeau) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the new Hidden Histories podcast - The Great Forgetting: Women Writers Before Austen. In this first episode, Helen Lewis, Sophie Coulombeau and Elizabeth Edwards question long-held assumptions about early British novels and who wrote them. For more information and shownotes see: http://bit.ly/1S90yMB See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the trailer for our new series "The Great Forgetting: women writers before Austen". Most Eighteenth Century novels were written by women. So why are the authors we remember mostly men? Helen Lewis talks to academics Sophie Coulombeau, Elizabeth Edwards and Jennie Batchelor to find out more.... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Memoir and Mortality', were delivered as part of Panel 4a. The speakers were (in order) Wendy Jones, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘Silent as the Grave: The Life-Writing and Letters of Mrs Anna Margaret Birkbeck', Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University, ‘Nata Nupta Obit: Hester Thrale Piozzi's Post-Mortem' and Joetta Harty, Robert Gordon University, ‘A Father's Mother's Memoir: The Notebooks of Charlotte Williams'.

Sophie Coulombeau on the origins of the custom for women to take their husband's name. Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage Gateshead. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the AHRC to find the brightest academic minds with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.