IN THE NEWS
A consideration of Kipling's poem The White Man's Burden, the invention of race and racism, and how such beliefs still play out in the world. BBC RADIO 3.
Eight Kipling short stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Edited by Harish Trivedi and Jan Montefiore. 'This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire, and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’.
(Amazon Review) From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer’s life and work―including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine.
Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy.
Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling’s public and private lives―and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.
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Published May 2021.
CONFERENCE
KIPLING IN THE NEWS: JOURNALISM, EMPIRE, AND DECOLONISATION (THURSDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER 2021)
SERENA WILLIAMS READS REIMAGINED VERSION OF ‘IF' BY KIPLING
8th March 2021
Serena Williams reads Rudyard Kipling's famous poem, 'If', reimagined by spoken word artist Deanna Rodger to celebrate International Women's Day.
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CHANNON DIARIES
6th March 2021
The Times Book Review, 6th March 2021.
Henry 'Chips' Channon, The Diaries 1918-1938 Vol 1, edited by Simon Heffer.
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Rudyard Kipling: 'A tiny apelike simian little man with incredible eyebrows of great bushiness. He is brown and a little dirty, and clumps of hair protrude from his ears.'