Islands

The Holy Island

Kenneth Steven visits another island and responds to its landscape in poetry and prose.

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It's a Hack's Life

The Primacy of the Instant: CNN and Computers

The history of the changes in news reporting in US journalism over the last 40 years.

• 14 mins

It's a Hack's Life

New Business Models: Debt and Gannett

In the 1980s, one man built America's biggest newspaper chain and founded USA Today.

• 14 mins

It's a Hack's Life

Foreign Correspondent

Michael Goldfarb talks about building a career reporting as a foreign correspondent.

• 14 mins

It's a Hack's Life

The Cult of the Presenter

In this episode, the influence of news programming based around a studio presenter.

• 14 mins

It's a Hack's Life

In my end is my beginning: freelancing in an online world

Michael Goldfarb looks at a model for the news business in the future.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2020

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

Tom Smith on the early pioneers of Berlin's music scene and arguments about whiteness.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Digging Deep

Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Tudor Virtual Reality

The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgement of Solomon.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Not Quite Jean Muir

How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Facing Facts

From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Facing Facts

From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2020

Pogroms and Prejudice

Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism, from Russian attacks to the present day.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2020

Egyptian Satire

Dina Rezk explores the power of humour in protest.

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New Generation Thinkers 2020

Prison Break

New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks if it is ever ok to escape from prison.

• 14 mins

Decameron Nights

I'm alright, Jack

I’m alright, Jack - a trio of folk tales about looking out for number one.

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Decameron Nights

Heartstrings

Heartstrings - a threesome of folk tales about love.

• 14 mins

Decameron Nights

Lady Luck

Lady Luck - a shamrock of forgotten tales about fortune and fate.

• 14 mins

Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence

Connections

Locked down in Dublin, an Irish pianist tunes into the songs of birds around him.

• 14 mins

Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence

Conduit

A soprano discovers the colour of her voice in a basement in Birmingham.

• 14 mins

Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence

Human

A beatboxer wrestles with the silence of his mind during the global crisis.

• 14 mins

Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence

Seeds

A cellist plants the seeds of her future in the Scottish Highlands.

• 14 mins

Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence

Mantra

Unlocking the power of the breath with mantra meditation during the global crisis.

• 14 mins

A Birdsong Garden

The Great Chorus

Redstarts and warblers are the stars in the dawn chorus of May.

• 14 mins

A Birdsong Garden

Summer in the Vale

The nightingales stand silent as a solar eclipse sweeps through the Vale of Whittingham.

• 14 mins

A Birdsong Garden

Autumn Passage

Chiffchaff’s first words, and the swallows come... and go.

• 14 mins

A Birdsong Garden

The Winter Flock

Escape amongst the haunting sounds of the owls on a cold winter’s night.

• 14 mins

A Birdsong Garden

The Spring Revival

Gas guns to peewits to witnessing the intimate song of the blackbird like never before.

• 14 mins

Mayflower Portraits

400 years on

Nick Bryant reflectis on what the Mayflower 400th anniversary means to Americans in 2020.

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