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Ginger Rogers
‘Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels’ said cartoonist Bob Thaves. Matthew Sweet is joined by Lucy Bolton, P…
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Children of the Waters
An ancient Japanese Buddhist ritual which involves a red baby bib, a small statue and water, has been taken up by women wanting to have some way of m…
2 years, 9 months ago
Pirates
From the Pirates of Penzance and Captain Hook, to Ottoman corsairs, Henry Avery, Mary Read and Lady Killigrew: Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generati…
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Revolutionary free speech
"Cancel culture" is used to describe debates which touch on freedom of expression today but what can we learn if we look back at events after the 178…
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Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
The trial of sisters begging on the streets of South London led to donations sent in by Victorian newspaper readers and an investigation by the Mendi…
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Religion and Science
Nicholas Spencer, Emily Qureshi-Hurst and Philip Ball join Christopher Harding for a conversation about the nature of reality – as science reveals it…
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A family of witches
An 8 year old who condemns his own mother to execution in 1582: New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday, who researches Renaissance literature at Newcast…
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New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
Customs officers raided the London bookshop Gay’s the Word on April 10th 1984 and seized 144 titles. A campaign was mounted after the directors were…
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The Rossettis and Walter Pater
What is that people hate about the Pre-Raphaelites? From the 19th century to the present day their detractors have been remarkably consistent in the …
2 years, 9 months ago
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023
From lessons in civility learnt playing French board game to the value of babbling by babies in speech development, a history of central heating to t…
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