Radio National – Boyer Lectures
Peter Conrad is doing this year’s Boyer Lectures on Radio National. The 40 year old lecture series is a commentary by prominant Australians. Conrad is a Professor of Literature at Oxford at was born in Tasmania (he was a Rhodes Scholar like Richard Flanagan). His book ‘Down Home’is about returning to Tasmania.
In his six Boyer Lectures, Peter Conrad charts this transformation, impressively referencing literature, historical texts and artistic works from several fields. With his extraordinary grasp of the world?s cultural history and after years spent largely in Europe, Peter Conrad is uniquely placed to deliver this perspective in ?Tales of Two Hemispheres.