The Memes that Make Us Laugh

Julian Baggini, Tiffany Watt Smith & Christopher Harding

• 45 mins

Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.

The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago and suffragette Punch and Judy.

• 45 mins

Re-thinking the Human Condition

Thomas Woolston Free Thinker, Isaiah Berlin philosopher plus memory and neuroscience.

• 46 mins

Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.

Gillian Clarke. Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.

• 51 mins

Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night

Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey , Tibor Fischer& Damian Catani on Céline's masterpiece

• 48 mins

Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War

Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?

• 46 mins

Why are we silent when conflict is loud?

Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?

• 44 mins

Lost Words and Language

Shahidha Bari looks at research showcased in the Being Human Festival at UK universities

• 45 mins

Death rituals

From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way doctors cope.

• 45 mins

Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.

From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community & the 29 bus route

• 50 mins

What kind of history should we write?

Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter

• 44 mins

The Left Behind

Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, populism and immigration

• 44 mins

Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.

POTUS, crisis management and ambition - Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books

Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw

• 45 mins

Slavery Stories

A long lost classic now published, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted novel & new research

• 58 mins

Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.

The director of Get Carter talks to Matthew Sweet about writing his own crime stories.

• 45 mins

Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV

• 45 mins

Is there a great divide between the arts and science?

Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.

• 46 mins

Are we being manipulated?

Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders

• 44 mins

Writing and Frankness

Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.

• 66 mins

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd

• 45 mins

Ice

Anne McElvoy & guests travel to the frozen ends of the Earth & C17 theatrical magic...

• 45 mins

Trees of Knowledge

Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner

• 44 mins

What does game playing teach us?

Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.

• 49 mins

Landmark: Watership Down

An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.

• 45 mins

The Digital Humanities

How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.

• 57 mins

Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box

Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie

• 46 mins

Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette

Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.

• 45 mins

Boredom

Time and the value of doing nothing

• 45 mins

Walls

Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall

• 45 mins