New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire

Christienna Fryar looks at Caribbean earthquakes and fires and lessons for rebuilding now

• 12 mins

New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress

Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea

• 13 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Feurtado's Fire

Christienna Fryar looks at Caribbean earthquakes and fires and lessons for rebuilding now.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Jean Rhys's Dress

A pregnant Sophie Oliver found comfort in a floral outfit owned by the Caribbean author.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

A Social History of Soup

Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Hoarding or Collecting?

Diarmuid Hester sorts through stuff saved by Francis Bacon, Vivian Maier and his own dad.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Battlefield Finds

Seren Griffiths tells the story of the soldier turned archaeologist Francis Buckley.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Colonial Papers

Alexandra Reza's Essay considers the Gilets Noirs, Ousmane Sembène and Nathalie Quintane.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Beyond the Betting Shop

Darragh McGee on the history of gambling, from 18th-century card games to phone apps.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

A Norwegian Morality Tale

Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

In Praise of Flatness

Noreen Masud finds inspiration in fenlands, polished tables and Kazuo Ishiguro's novels.

• 14 mins

Paris 2021

The People

Key moments in shaping modern Europe, on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

• 14 mins

Paris 2021

Education

Key moments in shaping modern Europe, on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

• 14 mins

Paris 2021

Art

Key moments in shaping modern Europe, on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

• 14 mins

Paris 2021

Destruction

Key moments in shaping modern Europe, on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

• 14 mins

Paris 2021

Women

Key moments in shaping modern Europe, on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

• 14 mins

Churchcrawls in Solitude

Illington, Norfolk

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores his life and work through five of Britain's historic churches

• 14 mins

Churchcrawls in Solitude

Wetherden, Suffolk

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores his life and work through five of Britain's historic churches

• 14 mins

Churchcrawls in Solitude

Dunwich, Suffolk

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores his life and work through five of Britain's historic churches

• 14 mins

Churchcrawls in Solitude

Inglesham, Wiltshire

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores his life and work through five of Britain's historic churches

• 14 mins

Churchcrawls in Solitude

St Barnabas Jericho, Oxford

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores his life and work through five of Britain's historic churches

• 14 mins

In Their Voices

Marian Anderson

Peter Brathwaite shares his love of the voice of Marian Anderson and why it is so special.

• 14 mins

In Their Voices

Leontyne Price

Peter Brathwaite shares his love of the voice of Leontyne Price and why it is so special.

• 14 mins

In Their Voices

Eric Bentley

Peter Brathwaite shares his love of the voice of Eric Bentley, and why it is so special.

• 14 mins

In Their Voices

Robert McFerrin

Peter Brathwaite shares his love of the voice of Robert McFerrin and why it is so special.

• 14 mins

In Their Voices

Vera Hall

Peter Brathwaite shares his love of the voice of Vera Hall and why it is so special.

• 14 mins

De Waal's Itinerant Pots

Hans Coper

Migration is the theme of Edmund de Waal's series. How ideas and artefacts travel in time.

• 14 mins

De Waal's Itinerant Pots

Wedgwood

Second on the theme of migration. Pots are vessels holding ideas that are carried abroad.

• 14 mins

De Waal's Itinerant Pots

The Schindler House

On the theme of migration, a story of the freedom offered by 20th-century California.

• 14 mins