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Sleep justice and sleeplessness
There's nothing like a good night's sleep, but Laurence Scott discovers that our ability to enjoy one may be related to other societal inequalities, …
2 years, 1 month ago
Images of Persia
The medieval poet Hafez and how his work speaks to today, the impact of digs undertaken by 19th-century feminist archaeologist Jane Dieulafoy and the…
2 years, 1 month ago
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Gene Hackman is a brilliant but troubled surveillance expert who gets drawn unwittingly into a conspiracy to murder. Released at the height of the Wa…
2 years, 1 month ago
Muses and women's creativity
Iseult Gonne is the daughter of the Irish suffragette, actress and republican who became a muse for WB Yeats. Novelist Helen Cullen has been research…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
1,300 women met in The Hague in 1915 to discuss votes for women, human rights and the importance of peace. Jennifer Thomson shares her research into …
2 years, 1 month ago
The Dutch Connection
Adam Smyth loves books - as well as being a Professor of English Literature he runs an experimental printing press from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. W…
2 years, 1 month ago
Hitchhiking
Travelling in Woody Guthrie's footsteps inspired a history of hitchhiking written by Jonathan Purkis. He joins Matthew Sweet for a conversation which…
2 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: Stitching Stories
Recycling Victorian clothes, the history of costume design, the messages conveyed in art made from textiles and the stories encoded in ancient embroi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Can - Future Days
Formed in 1968, the German group Can's founding members included Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay who had both studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen. Jo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Myths, ships and history
Asked to picture a nineteenth-century ship, you might think of the HMS Victory or HMS Temeraire, symbolic of empire. Something epitomised by flag-wav…
2 years, 2 months ago