Presentation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan
The Forum, BBC Radio
(2018)
Abstract
Professor of English 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
over 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 forty-five minute program will discuss the life of nineteenth-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 January 13 and will be available streaming online on the website for the
BBC World Service at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004kln9
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 13, 2018
Citation Information
Samantha C. Harvey. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan" The Forum, BBC Radio (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/samantha_harvey/74/