Kindness

Rutger Bregman tells Anne McElvoy why survival of the fittest needs rethinking as an idea

• 45 mins

Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden

Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of writers about routines & knowing how to start and stop.

• 45 mins

Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken

Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health

• 43 mins

Sarah Perry

In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.

• 55 mins

Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.

• 44 mins

Revisit: Tokyo Story

Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life

• 44 mins

Robin Askwith

The actor talks to Matthew Sweet about a childhood affected by polio and his career.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery

Naomi Paxton looks at new research into the effectiveness of the UK Act passed in 2015

• 41 mins

Dickens

Mathew Sweet, Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead 150 years since Dickens' death

• 44 mins

Failure and female friendship

Lara Feigel, Michèle Roberts & New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza with Shahidha Bari

• 45 mins

The future of theatre debate

Bertie Carvel, Amit Lahav, Eleanor Loyd, Roy Alexander Weise, Caroline Dinenage MP & more

• 43 mins

New Thinking: Refugees

What are the best shelters? the right language? what do we learn from self help in camps?

• 43 mins

Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species

An author, scientist, architect and explorer compare notes on this polar region.

• 44 mins

Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance

Paul Mendez and Francesca Wade on Virginia Woolf, walking, identity and Dalloway Day

• 44 mins

Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology

A virtual Bare Lit Festival talk, Nadifa Mohammed & Irenosen Okojie with Shahidha Bari

• 48 mins

Rethinking the Curriculum

Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall, Seb Falk talk to Rana Mitter about what we teach

• 44 mins

Revisit: Arundhati Roy

The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.

• 44 mins

Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam

A pair of authors due to be at the Bradford Literature Festival compare notes on writing.

• 44 mins

Tudor Virtual Reality

What is the link between VR dinosaurs & a Tudor wall painting of the Judgement of Solomon?

• 13 mins

Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK & Lebanon

• 13 mins

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

Tom Smith looks at the early pioneers of this music scene & arguments about whiteness now

• 14 mins

Digging Deep

Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.

• 14 mins

Not Quite Jean Muir

How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills

• 14 mins

Dam Fever and The Diaspora

How do large dam projects attract such adoration, despite lessons of twentieth century?

• 14 mins

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

The screenwriter and novelist talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting Britain in his work.

• 44 mins

Gambling, good leadership and economic history

Anne McElvoy looks at betting, economics and the leadership of US presidents

• 45 mins

Facing Facts

From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces

• 12 mins

Prison Break

New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks is it ever ok to escape from prison?

• 14 mins

What does a black history curriculum look like?

Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach?

• 45 mins

The consolation of philosophy and stories

Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway

• 45 mins