Seances and Science

A Croydon poltergeist and artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale and Simon Grant.

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2020 Polari Prize winners

Shahidha Bari looks at some of the best recent LGBTQ+ writing and photography.

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The Writing of Aimé Césaire

From négritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.

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City Life, estate living and lockdown

Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.

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Individualism and Community

From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts

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Audiences

A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd

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War in fact and fiction

Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto

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Depicting Disability

The history of disabled people’s political activism, to portrayals in fiction & at courts.

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Billy Wilder

Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.

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What we cherish and what we give away

What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?

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The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020

What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?

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Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse

New research on Herman Moll's maps, looted Mexican coins and Alan Bates's early career.

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About Face

What would you change about your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

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Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

How do you teach writing? Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes.

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Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong and the USA. Are confrontational politics here to stay?

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Bedrooms

From the most private space to office: Matthew Sweet, Tiffany Watt Smith and Fern Riddell.

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Conformity and Rebellion

Activist Obi Egbuna, Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, Japanese child star Misora Hibari

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Leadership

From Tudor courts to plantations to the Arab Spring: a Bristol Festival of Ideas debate.

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Mould-Breaking Writing

Will Harris, Max Porter and Chloe Aridjis, Christine Yao and Shahidha Bari.

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Times of Change

Can the Industrial Revolution and the end of the Aztecs help us shape a post-Covid world?

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Ways of Talking about Health

Des Fitzgerald with projects that use films and books to rethink how we approach health.

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The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age

Matthew Sweet on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Carnap and other philosophical greats.

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Hey Presto

From a history of Panto to magic tricks and what surgeons can learn from them.

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Ancient Wisdom and Remote Living

From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples and the resilience of island life

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Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Anne McElvoy listens out for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel

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Winter Light

From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars and Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.

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Marlene Dietrich

Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich, from Europe to Hollywood.

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Mildred Pierce

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James M Cain's classic novel and its film adaptation.

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Dostoevsky

Rana Mitter reads from a new biography of Dostoevsky, 200 years after his birth.

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Aphra Behn

John Gallagher's guests decode changes in Behn's loyalties from her plays and dedications.

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