New Generation Thinkers 2019

Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century

Sarah Goldsmith on how the C18th craze for weight lifting fed into ideas about masculinity

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2019

Who Wrote Animal Farm?

Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2019

Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?

What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2019

The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea

Michael Talbot tells stories of Turkish raiders, sea patrols and midwater borders.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2019

Where Do Human Rights Come From?

Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket

• 14 mins

Behold the Man

Christ Crowned With Thorns by Dirk Bouts

At the National Gallery, Sikh writer Sathnam Sanghera encounters the suffering Christ.

• 14 mins

Behold the Man

Christ Before Pilate by the Master of Cappenberg

At the National Gallery, writer Kit de Waal reflects on Pilate’s dilemma.

• 14 mins

Behold the Man

Christ as the Man of Sorrows by Jacobello del Bonomo

At the National Gallery, Muslim journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik discovers a brown Christ.

• 14 mins

Behold the Man

The Crucifixion by the Master of Delft

At the National Gallery, writer Sheila Hayman views a life-affirming Crucifixion scene.

• 14 mins

Behold the Man

The Incredulity of St Thomas by Guercino

Nigerian novelist Chibundu Onuzo contemplates doubting Thomas at the National Gallery.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

An Officer and a Swimming Pool: How I decided to Travel Blind

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

Why There are 300 Seconds in a Blind Minute

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

Sight Seeing? Or Hear Listening

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

The Importance of Imagination

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

How I See With My Feet

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

Becoming What You Are

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

Under the Mountain

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

For Everyone and No-One

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

A Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

The Art of Ending

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

From the Source

Gaelic Waters

Folk singer Julie Fowlis conjures kelpies, selkies and waterfall banshees from Gaelic song

• 14 mins

From the Source

Medway Mudlarks

Driftwood, a Victorian poison bottle and a sailor's lost boot. Potent inspiration for art.

• 14 mins

From the Source

The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

Once lead singer of The Undertones, Feargel Sharkey now gets his kicks from rod and line.

• 14 mins

From the Source

The Power of the Thames

Helen Czerski shares a physicist's view of the River Thames

• 14 mins

From the Source

Swimming the Avon

Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett swims the River Avon in search of inspiration.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Fiona Stafford

Reflections on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, from the 2019 Hay Festival.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Horatio Clare

Horatio Clare explores the castaway myth.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle reflects on Robinson Crusoe's themes of imperialism and slavery.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Alys Conran

Alys Conran reflects on what it's like to read Robinson Crusoe as a novelist.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Daniel Hahn

The Essay from Hay Festival 2019

• 14 mins