This week, publisher Alessandro Gallenzi reveals how he turned literary detective and uncovered Dylan Thomas's youthful plagiarism; and Norma Clarke on the stunning work of two 18th-century women portrait artists.

'Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The entwined lives of two great eighteenth-century women artists' by Franny Moyle 

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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Sempre desconfio quando o mundo endurece de uma vez só e o centro cultural parece descobrir a crise como novidade. Guerras, colapsos democráticos, avanço da extrema direita, inteligência artificial fabricando mentiras em escala industrial -tudo vira pauta urgente, conceito curatorial, texto de LinkedIn e desabafo nos stories. Enquanto isso, na periferia brasileira, o mundo duro nunca foi episódio. Sempre foi a nossa tela inicial do Windows. É daí que o jeitinho brasileiro nasce e vira arte. Leia mais (01/07/2026 - 04h00)

Today’s episode in our occasional series with historian Robert Saunders on significant political anniversaries looks at the event that blew British politics apart at the start of 1886. The ‘Hawarden Kite’ – when William Gladstone’s son Herbert floated the idea that his father had committed to Irish Home Rule – split the Liberal party, upended political allegiances and set the country on the path to potential civil war. How did it happen? Why were passions running so high on the question of Ireland? And how does it all compare to Brexit?

Out tomorrow on PPF+: Part 2 of David’s conversation with Robert in which they take the story of the fight over Irish Home Rule up to the crisis of 1912-1914. How close did Britain come to an actual civil war? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

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