Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman

Two American authors talk to Laurence Scott about their sense of time, place and self

• 44 mins

Class and social mobility

Selina Todd, David Goodhart, Timandra Harkness and Sadie Ryan talk with Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums

Shahidha Bari & V&A fashion curator Claire Wilcox on costumes, couture, and wardrobes

• 44 mins

Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)

Matthew Sweet and guests assess Darwin's arguments about the human species, sex, and race

• 44 mins

Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world

In February 1971 the UK went decimal. Anne McElvoy and guests look at money old and new.

• 44 mins

Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies

Samira Shackle , Ejaz Haider and Majed Akhter talk about Karachi, power, crime and energy

• 44 mins

Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history

Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60 died in an execution

• 45 mins

Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc

Fiona Sampson, Peggy Reynolds and Anne McElvoy talk poetry and writing personal stories

• 45 mins

Humans, Animals, Ecologies

Matthew Sweet in conversation with two radical thinkers: Joanna Bourke and Anna Tsing

• 56 mins

Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4

Shahidha Bari reads Robert Hurley's new English translation

• 44 mins

Saint John Henry Newman

Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Girls

New research into ideas about girlhood and growing up - in film, fiction, art and society

• 43 mins

Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith

Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing + Stevie's Smith's writing

• 44 mins

Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking

Lynda Clark, Allison Koenecke and Sadie Ryan discuss their research with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk

Seb Falk talks to researchers about our attitude to Mars,seeing colour and Skylab's crash

• 44 mins

The Vietnam Paris connection

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Edward Said's thinking

Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator

• 45 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard

New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle

• 14 mins

New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?

John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records

• 44 mins

Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman

2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations

• 13 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi

• 13 mins

Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021

Ten researchers look at colonial history, alphabets, punctuation, poetry, art terminology

• 44 mins

Syria: hope and poetry

An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst

• 45 mins

Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper

• 14 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden

• 13 mins

Frantz Fanon

Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation

• 44 mins

Pleasure

Cooking, nature, music, colour - what's your lockdown pleasure?

• 46 mins

Churchill's reputation

Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies

• 44 mins

Writing About Faith

Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott

• 45 mins

From Blackface to Beyoncé

From the theatre stage to the Superbowl, in praise of Black performance

• 44 mins