Samantha Harvey will be featured on a radio program for the BBC Worldwide Service for its flagship discussion program, “The Forum,” which has an audience of more than 140 million listeners across the world.
Harvey will discuss Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” with several other academics, including Richard Holmes, biographer of Coleridge and author of “The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science,” Peter Anderson, professor of English at University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Chinese historian Kent Deng from the London School of Economics and Political Science in England.
The 45-minute program will discuss the life of 19th-century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the various sources that inspired the composition of “Kubla Khan,” which was one of his most famous and enigmatic poems, and its legacy for modern culture today.
The program will air on Jan. 13, 2018, and will be available streaming online on the website for the BBC World Service at: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004kln9