Immortality

Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature film and myth

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Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy

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The Normans

Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today.

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The Black Country, past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests record with an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival.

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Ibsen

New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays by Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters.

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Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance

Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.

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John Cowper Powys

John Gray, Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring discuss Powys's writing.

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My Neighbour Totoro

Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

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Female power and influence past and present

Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro.

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How We Read

Matthew Sweet explores our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text.

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Miles Davis and On The Corner

Matthew Sweet and guests explore Davis's genre-stretching album, released on 11 Oct 1972.

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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

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Romanticism revisited

Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Brontë under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.

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British Academy Book Prize 2022

Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

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Going Underground

Shahidha Bari and guests explore life and leisure underground.

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Oliver Postgate

Matthew Sweet with Daniel Postgate, Sandra Kerr, Neil Brand and Samira Ahmed.

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Dead languages

John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of ancient Pompeii

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Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk joins academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria.

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Ghostwatch

An examination of the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV broadcast from 1992.

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Alexander the Great

Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander.

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Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena, joins Anne McElvoy.

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John Knox

A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022

Video game designers, a former soldier, and curator of War Games at IWM join Anne McElvoy.

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Plastic and Clay

Lisa Mullen and guests compare the extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.

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Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022

New research on Benjamin Franklin in Cumbria, the Kenwood, lightbulbs and ganzflicker.

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Experimentation in the arts

Shahidha Bari talks to the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for creative daring.

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George Bernard Shaw

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950).

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St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche

Rana Mitter discusses three major philosophers of religion and self-development

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Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales

From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real.

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Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment

Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz, Lucy Bolton and Matthew Sweet look at this 1966 film.

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