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Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite
The singers Enrico Caruso and Elsie Houston, a new opera at ENO and links between musical and artistic traditions in Latin America, Europe and New Yo…
3 years ago
Land and soil politics
From nature as "a living whole" in the ideas of Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt to the "Blood and Soil" ideas of Nazi Germany: New Generation Think…
3 years ago
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…
3 years ago
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…
3 years 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…
3 years ago
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…
3 years ago
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…
3 years ago
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…
3 years ago
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…
3 years ago
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…
3 years ago