The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021

How do we define a war? Anne McElvoy and guests look at how language changes attitudes.

• 44 mins

Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees

Is climate change really causing people to flee their homes?

• 26 mins

Green Thinking: Climate Justice

What we learn from involving communities experiencing the sharp end of climate change.

• 25 mins

New Thinking: Being Human 2021

Research into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.

• 44 mins

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?

• 44 mins

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On

Ahead of a performance at the London Jazz Festival, what history underpins the album?

• 44 mins

Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil

From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration

From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.

• 25 mins

Romanian history and literature

Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

Christopher Logue's War Music

Shahidha Bari and guests read this version of Homer's Illiad and look at Logue's language

• 44 mins

Toys

How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.

• 45 mins

Dürer, Rhinos and Whales

Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.

• 44 mins

Caribbean art

As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post war writing and art

• 44 mins

The Day of the Triffids

The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel

• 44 mins

Ground-breaking history books

Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021

Prize winning films about migration, autism, Colombians, farming and children born of war

• 50 mins

The TV Debate

Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr, Germaine Greer v Norman Mailer: Have debates changed?

• 45 mins

Witchcraft and Margaret Murray

Matthew Sweet and guests look at The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921) and witches now

• 44 mins

Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham

Two Buddhist scholars and the socialist feminist historian join Rana Mitter

• 44 mins

Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue

Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull

• 45 mins

Fungi: An Alien Encounter

Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.

• 44 mins

Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave

The French film star who burst onto the scene in 1960 in Godard's Breathless

• 44 mins

Gloves

From python skin to digital worlds, PPE to vegan materials: how gloves are evolving.

• 44 mins

Appeasement

How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?

• 44 mins

Adapting Molière

Liz Lochead is one of Anne McElvoy's guests discussing how to update the French dramatist

• 44 mins

Mélusine

The mermaid-like figure from medieval folklore is discussed by Shahidha Bari and guests.

• 44 mins

Altered States

Matthew Sweet and guests knock on the doors of perception

• 44 mins

Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones

Shahidha Bari is joined by three writers to discuss love and the contemporary novel.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Mental Health Research

How can young people regulate their emotions and can gaming help adolescent mental health

• 40 mins

Touki Bouki

A close look at Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film with Matthew Sweet and guests

• 44 mins