Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan

Shahida Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.

• 45 mins

The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress

Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a old dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea

• 13 mins

New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons

Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray, and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup

Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.

• 13 mins

Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

• 45 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?

Diarmuid Hester muses on the thin line between inspiration and a compulsive disorder.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back

• 13 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds

Seren Griffiths tells the story of the soldier turned archaeologist Francis Buckley.

• 13 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers

Alexandra Reza's Essay considers the Gilet Noirs, Ousmane Sembène, and Nathalie Quintane

• 13 mins

Epistemic Injustice

Shahidha Bari investigates how theory of knowledge can address real world problems

• 44 mins

Links between Judaism and Christianity

Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots

• 46 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop

Darragh McGee considers the history of gambling from 18th century card games to apps

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale

Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals

• 13 mins

Northern Ireland

Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers

• 45 mins

Samuel Johnson's circle

Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we

• 45 mins

Napoleon the gardener and art thief

Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter

• 45 mins

Alison Bechdel

American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich

• 45 mins

Marlon James and Neil Gaiman

The two weavers of fantastical fiction sift through myths with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data

Lisa Mullen explores the way data can change our view of history & looks at conservation.

• 44 mins

Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings

Anne McElvoy explores the past and present of the transcontinental nation of Egypt

• 45 mins

The Wolfson History Prize 2021

Rana Mitter meets the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize

• 45 mins

Ghosts of the Spanish civil war

Breaking the silence: filmmakers, a novelist and historian on the recent Spanish past.

• 45 mins

Who needs critics?

Matthew Sweet questions the critic's role while Vid Simoniti looks at algorithms and art.

• 45 mins

Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?

Was Nero really a victim of plots? Bulgaria's hidden past. Plus a novel about startups.

• 45 mins

Fashion, Art, and the Body

Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter, and Ekow Eshun join Shahidha Bari

• 45 mins

Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

Can one book solve all the problems of philosophy?

• 62 mins

New Thinking: The Botanical Past

From still life paintings to Kew Gardens, a new history of horticulture is being written

• 44 mins

Alice and Dreaming

Alice is asked in Wonderland, Why is a raven like a writing desk? Salman Rushdie explains

• 44 mins

Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?

From ice photos by Wayne Binitie to 140 ideas from artists collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

• 43 mins

Green Thinking: Future of Work

The future of work in a post-Covid-19 world and the implications for our environment.

• 26 mins