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A lively Tudor world
Marrying someone based on a portrait was part of life in Renaissance Europe. An exhibition in Bath explores the politics of wedlock and painting - Ne…
2 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS
160 volunteers recorded over 2,400 interviews with over 1,200 people on their lived experience of the NHS - as patients, staff and members of the pub…
2 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Children and health
What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school? Can children express their experiences through drawing, and how …
2 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: health inequalities
From exercise on prescription to museum visits and debt advice. Christienna Fryar hears about social prescribing projects which are trying to link up…
2 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Design and health
How a new material helps stroke patients recover and how mapping where infections and contamination happen helps staff training.
New Generation Thinke…
2 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Writing the NHS
In the first NHS hospital to be opened in 1948 by then Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, a prize winning poet and academic has been sitting in the re…
2 years, 9 months ago
Dystopian thinking
Dystopias are a longstanding staple of film and literature, particularly science fiction, but what can we learn from them? Do they simply entrench de…
2 years, 9 months ago
Julian the Apostate
Ibsen referred to Emperor and Galilean as his "major work". The play describes the life of Julian, who ruled the Roman empire from AD361-363. Julian …
2 years, 9 months ago
Boyhood to manhood
The Second World War obsessed Luke Turner when he was growing up, before he founded the music website Quietus. Music has also been former teacher and…
2 years, 10 months ago
Gut instinct
The Skeptic Editor Michael Marshall talks to Matthew Sweet about how we judge actions and truth. They're joined by New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richa…
2 years, 10 months ago