Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell

Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.

• 44 mins

Cars, Parking and Motorways.

A discussion reflecting on automobiles, AI and the 60th anniversary of the M1 motorway.

• 44 mins

Halloween. Ghost Stories

Haunting stories with Kirsty Logan, Jeremy Dyson and host Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

Quatermass

Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.

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The changing image of masculinity

Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola and Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life.

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The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate

Carrie Reichardt, Peter Bazalgette, Zahed Tajeddin and Rebecca Newell with Anne McElvoy.

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Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture

Le Gateau Chocolat, Lucy McCormick and Gaylene Gould with Matthew Sweet at the Barbican.

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Why We Need New News: Being Human Festival Research

Shahidha Bari looks at news past and present from hangings to updating TV news bulletins.

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Being Human: Love Stories

New research taking love stories out of the vaults and into the gay bar.

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Are the arts saving Margate?

Philip Dodd finds out about the Turner Contemporary’s impact. Plus writer Maggie Gee.

• 44 mins

George Eliot's Mill on the Floss

Rebecca Mead, Fiona Shaw, Philip Davis, Dafydd Daniel & Peggy Reynolds with Shahidha Bari.

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The legacy of the Trojan War

Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?

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Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?

Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, and Cindy Yu.

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The Future of Universities

Larry Summers and Josie Frasser on the impact of technology and globalisation.

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Resting and Rushing

Claudia Hammond has solutions for our frazzled times and Matthew Smith looks at ritalin.

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When TV & the information superhighway were new

Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno

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Feasting, fasting, hospitality and food security

From plenty to food banks - writer Priya Basil, curator Victoria Avery and Maia Elliot

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The shadow of empire and colonialism

Historian William Dalrymple, Wasafiri editor Susheila Nasta and novelist Romesh Gunesekera

• 44 mins

Pan-Africanism

Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.

• 44 mins

The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton

Laurence Scott and Alice Kelly re-read Wharton's 'gilded-age' novel The Age of Innocence.

• 44 mins

Speaking the right language.

Matthew Sweet asks how did the English language grow & what are the key election phrases?

• 44 mins

Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World

Rana Mitter looks at the ideologies surrounding climate disaster.

• 44 mins

The culture wars and politics now

Philip Dodd with Douglas Murray, David Goodhart, Beatrix Campbell and Maya Goodfellow.

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The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile

Matthew Sweet and guests are upstairs and downstairs in the stately home.

• 44 mins

Panpsychism - Is everything conscious?

Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on a radical movement in philosophy.

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Could there be a private language?

Shahidha Bari investigates how Wittgenstein meets the challenge of scepticism.

• 44 mins

Philosophy, imagination and film

Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss thought experiments and cinema.

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Why we read and the idea of the 'woman writer'

From Elizabethan poet Anne Dowriche and Anne Bronte to what women say they read now.

• 44 mins

Simplify your life - ideas from 20th-century radicals

Laurence Scott looks at the rise of vegetarianism, a basic income, world peace and nudism.

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Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future

Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans.

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