Quatermass

Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat

• 55 mins

The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate

Who decides what’s worth saving and what is culturally significant to protect in wartime?

• 44 mins

Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Cabaret and club culture, recorded at the Barbican.

• 57 mins

The Changing Image of Masculinity.

Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola & Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life

• 53 mins

Being Human: Love Stories

What does who we date and how we date say about us?

• 44 mins

New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019

Hetta Howes talks to winners of this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards

• 25 mins

The Legacy of the Trojan War

Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?

• 45 mins

Why We Need New News

Research on reporting hangings, assassinations & propaganda from the Being Human Festival

• 44 mins

Are the arts saving Margate?

Investigating regeneration and gentrification in the new arts hub.

• 45 mins

The Mill on the Floss

Celebrating George Eliot with readings from Fiona Shaw

• 45 mins

New Thinking: George Eliot

Writer of the English provinces?

• 57 mins

Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?

Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, & reporter Cindy Yu

• 45 mins

The future of universities

Harvard's Larry Summers & OU's Josie Fraser on the impact of technology & globalisation

• 45 mins

Resting And Rushing

Should we take more breaks at during the working day? With Claudia Hammond.

• 48 mins

When TV & the information superhighway were new

Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno

• 44 mins

Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security

Food for thought? Eleanor Barraclough hosts Vicky Avery, Priya Basil, and Maia Elliott.

• 56 mins

The shadow of empire and colonialism

The company that gave the world atrocious corporate violence and beautiful art

• 49 mins

Pan-Africanism

Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.

• 44 mins

The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton

Rereading Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence.

• 44 mins

Speaking the right language.

Matthew Sweet asks how did the English language grow & what are the key election phrases?

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories

A look at changing attitudes about sportswomen, once dubbed unfeminine, & LGBT athletes

• 29 mins

Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World

Rana Mitter looks at the ideologies surrounding climate disaster

• 49 mins

The culture wars and politics now.

Philip Dodd with Douglas Murray, David Goodhart, Beatrix Campbell & Maya Goodfellow.

• 44 mins

The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile

Why are we so obsessed by the setting of the big country house, upstairs and downstairs?

• 67 mins

Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?

Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on panpsychism, a radical movement in philosophy

• 48 mins

Could there be a private language?

Shahidha Bari investigates Wittgenstein's response to scepticism

• 67 mins

Philosophy and Film

Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss whether you can philosophise with film

• 53 mins

Simplify your life

Nudism, camping, and vegetarianism: the Life Reform movement explained.

• 53 mins

Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"

From Elizabethan Anne Dowriche, Victorian Anne Bronte to why women say they read now.

• 45 mins

Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future

Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans

• 45 mins