Contagion & Viruses

Matthew Sweet talks to John Dupré, Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen & Matt Adams

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How do we build a new masculinity?

Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare and Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet.

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The Declaration Of Arbroath

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today.

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Future Thinking

Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen, Riel Miller, Sarah Dillon and Rupert Read with Matthew Sweet

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Wordsworth

Professors Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge talk to New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson

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Knees

Dance to prayer, servants to Kings, knees ups to being on our knees. With Matthew Sweet

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Religion and ordinary lives

Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles.

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Belonging

Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards.

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Deep Time and Human History

Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to talk the deepest history.

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What's so great about EM Forster

Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about novelist EM Forster's work.

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Science Fiction and ecological thinking

Hetta Howes, Amy Butt and Caroline Edwards ask if science fiction is the new realism.

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Alternative Realities

Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life-changing experiences and the fourth dimension.

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Shakespeare for the People

Adrian Lester and Prof Ewan Fernie talk to Islam Issa about Birmingham's first folio.

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Cary Grant

Matthew Sweet and guests imagine an evening in the film star's company.

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Neolithic Revelations

A lack of dental floss in the Neolithic era proves to be a boon for archaeologists.

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WWII radio propaganda and French relations

From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.

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Big State and the Industrial Revolution

Emma Griffin and William Ashworth share new research on Victorian industry.

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The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton

New takes on Chaucer, the Bible and African trading from 3 of the historians shortlisted.

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A feminist take on medieval history

How does Chaucer write on rape and consent? What links Kim Kardashian and Margery Kempe?

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The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi

From Indian cricket, a survey of the oceans to Jack the Ripper: 3 shortlisted historians.

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Kindness

Rutger Bregman tells Anne McElvoy why survival of the fittest needs rethinking as an idea.

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Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden

Shahidha Bari hosts a conversation recorded with the Royal Society of Literature.

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Sarah Perry

In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.

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Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.

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Tokyo Story

Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life.

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Robin Askwith

The actor talks to Matthew Sweet about a childhood affected by polio and his career.

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Tackling Modern Slavery

Naomi Paxton looks at new research into the effectiveness of the UK act passed in 2015.

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Dickens

Mathew Sweet, Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead -150 years since Dickens' death

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Failure and female friendship

Lara Feigel, Michèle Roberts and New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza with Shahidha Bari.

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The future of theatre debate

Bertie Carvel & Roy Alexander Weise are amongst Anne McElvoy's guests

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