The Hexagon: Arts & Culture Tips from Exeter Academics and Friends (Ep 4-Francesca Stavrakopoulo

Francesca Stravrakoupoulou’s arts & culture tips
Ellen’s guest: Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter – and she also happens to be an atheist. She explores topics like God's body, child sacrifice, goddess worship, ancestor veneration, and the social and religious power of human corpses, and she appears regularly on TV and radio.

Francesca’s tips:
1. Art: Grayson’s Art Club, Channel 4
2. Book: Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
3. Online: @MuseumsUnlocked
4. TV: I May Destroy You (BBC)
5. Chat: Cosmic Shambles Network

Ellen’s tip:
6. Modern Family, a sitcom on Netflix

In each episode of this series Ellen Wiles invites a guest to reveal their five top arts and culture tips for life under lockdown and beyond and offers a tip of her own. Recommendations range across books, films, TV, podcasts, streamed theatre, dance performances, online exhibitions, and various other artforms and experiences.

Host bio:
Dr. Ellen Wiles is a Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of Exeter, and is a novelist, anthropologist, and curator. She is the author of The Invisible Crowd (2017), Saffron Shadows (2015) and Live Literature (2021). Website: www.ellenwiles.com | Twitter: @ellenwiles | Insta: @ellen_wiles

Links
Exeter Arts & Culture Network | Twitter/Insta: @artsandcultureex