New Generation Thinkers

Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler

Sophie Coulombeau challenges the way we look at failure in the story of a C18 entrepreneur

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Forgotten German Princess

The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights

Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence.

• 14 mins

To The Lighthouse

Dr Rita Charon traces literary parallels in the responses of New Yorkers to 9/11.

• 13 mins

Never Let Me Go

What does it mean to be human, and how can physicians respond to life's mysteries?

• 13 mins

The Wings of the Dove

Finding a model for the physician in the pages of Henry James.

• 14 mins

Sonny's Blues

How James Baldwin's short story helped break down divisions of class, age and race.

• 13 mins

The Underground Railroad

How a novel about American slavery is used to train medical students.

• 13 mins

Narrative Medicine

Sonny's Blues

Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.

• 15 mins

Narrative Medicine

The Wings of the Dove

Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.

• 15 mins

Narrative Medicine

Never Let Me Go

Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.

• 15 mins

Narrative Medicine

To The Lighthouse

Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.

• 15 mins

Narrative Medicine

The Underground Railroad

Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.

• 15 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Dover Beach

Professor Fiona Stafford explores Dover beach, an emblem of Englishness for millennia.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

The Giant's Causeway

Professor Fiona Stafford explores the ultimate beach-as-symbol, the Giant's Causeway.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Scarborough Beach

Fiona Stafford explores Scarborough beach - a true entrepreneur and survivor.

• 15 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Barra Beach

Fiona Stafford explores Hebridean Barra beach, the world's only beach airport.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Crosby Beach

Portraits of iconic British beaches. Crosby beach, Liverpool, hosts 100 Gormley statues.

• 14 mins

Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...

Novelist Ian Sansom fires off a letter to Geoffrey Chaucer...

• 14 mins

Dear George Eliot...

Novelist Ian Sansom pens a missive to George Eliot...

• 14 mins

Dear Virginia Woolf...

A letter of apology to Virginia Woolf from novelist, Ian Sansom.

• 14 mins

Dear Agatha Christie...

Novelist Ian Sansom has a theory to put to Queen of crime, Agatha Christie.

• 14 mins

Big Emotion

New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott asks if feelings are becoming data, do they change?

• 15 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Piazza

Writer Polly Coles reads The Piazza, her first essay on the life of Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

La Strada

Writer Polly Coles reads the second of her essays about Italy’s public spaces, La Strada.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

Walls

Writer Polly Coles reads Walls, the third essay in her series about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Garden

Writer Polly Coles reads The Garden, her fourth essay about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Church

Writer Polly Coles reads The Church, her final essay about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins