China: World Politics, Ink Art and Insomnia

Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA.

• 44 mins

Grief

Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.

• 44 mins

Ships and History

Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards and Tom Nancollas.

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Housework

Gender, class and domestic tasks. Matthew pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in.

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Preserving our heritage

From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives

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Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound

Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?

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Teaching and Inspiration

Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.

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Speaking Welsh

Catherine Fletcher explores the relationship between Cymru and Cymraeg - Wales and Welsh.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Anne McElvoy discusses the visionary poet with a composer and two literature experts.

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May Day Rituals

Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about community, collective action and May revels.

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Kawanabe Kyōsai and Yukio Mishima

Japanese cultural experimentation: painter Kyōsai 1831-1889 and writer Mishima 1925-1970.

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Windows

From Rear Window to stained glass, TB to paintings at Dulwich. Shahidha Bari hosts.

• 44 mins

Odessa Stories

Linda Grant and Boris Dralyuk discuss the writer Isaac Babel with Matthew Sweet.

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Mental Health

Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.

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Soil

John Gallagher and guests dig deep into the significance of soil.

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Soho

Matthew Sweet is joined by Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.

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Gandhi, Indian architecture

Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi.

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Goddesses

Christopher Harding investigates the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others.

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Tattoos

Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.

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The Tudor Mind

Donne, Hamlet, mathematics and the Tudor portraits composed by Vaughan Williams.

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Tudor families

Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII.

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Oceans and the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival.

• 44 mins

Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy

The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.

• 44 mins

The Wolfson Prize 2022

Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for the Wolfson Prize for history writing.

• 44 mins

John McGrath's Scottish Drama

Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

• 44 mins

Victorian Streets

Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th-century city streets in our heads the right one?

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South African writing

Damon Galgut discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922.

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Slow film and ecology

Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film about rice made over 18 years.

• 44 mins

Sheffield

Reimagining the city through Chris Bush's drama trilogy about its oldest scissor factory.

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