Between iPods, building works, music-blasting restaurants and endless traffic noise, the place for quiet grows ever smaller.  In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasing sense that noise pollution is an environmental catastrophe. Travelling and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why… Continue reading In Pursuit of Silence: George Prochnik talks to Dr Simon Lewis

Popular culture is littered with famous criminal men – from Robin Hood to Ronnie Biggs they’ve become folk heroes. But what about all the criminal women?  Where are the highwaywomen, jewel thieves, bank robbers and gold smugglers? Did they never exist, or have they just been forgotten? The Queens of the Underworld broke down barriers… Continue reading Caitlin Davies – Queens of the Underworld