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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Autism, Film and Patterns

From Rain Man to Atypical. Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life.

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Women and Slavery

New research into female slave owners in Britain to women on Caribbean plantations.

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Witchcraft, Werewolves and Writing the Devil

New novels from Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden depict Mrs Death and the devil's daughter.

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Harlots and 18th-century working women

Hallie Rubenhold, Moira Buffini and Laura Lammasniemi discuss the TV series Harlots.

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James Baldwin and Race in the USA

Rana Mitter and guests re-read James Baldwin as a new US president is inaugurated.

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John Rawls's A Theory of Justice

Anne McElvoy and guests re-read this 1971 work of political philosophy about inequality.

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Food, the Environment and Richard Flanagan

Bush fires in novelist Richard Flanagan's new book, and Anne McElvoy looks at veganism.

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Yiddish and Rotwelsch Languages, Nazi France

Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about languages, codes and secrecy.

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What Makes a Good Lecture?

Ted talks, zoom and lectures :Mary Beard, Homi Bhabha and Seán Williams join Shahidha Bari

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Eco-Criticism

Who are the best writers past and present who give us an insight into the natural world?

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Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman

Two American authors talk to Laurence Scott about their sense of time, place and self.

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