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The Daleks
The Daleks are back! As restorations of the two 1960s Dr Who films are rereleased in British cinemas, Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on the most memorab…
3 years, 6 months ago
Satyajit Ray's films
Tariq Ali picks Pather Panchali and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jilani describes Jalsaghar or The Music Room. Rana Mitter presents this programme wh…
3 years, 6 months ago
France, music hall and history
How does France look when viewed from different places and at different times? Graham Robb knows France well from his academic career and decades of …
3 years, 6 months ago
Women warriors and power brokers
Aethelflaed and Bertha are two of the figures discussed in the new history of women in the Middle Ages written by Janina Ramirez. Choreographer Shoba…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Black Fantastic
From Beyonce to Octavia Butler, from Chris Ofili to Jordan Peele, the speculative and the mythical have been used as powerful tools to shape Black ar…
3 years, 6 months ago
Writing about money
How does money shape history and how do we write about it? Anne McElvoy discusses those questions with a finalist in the political writing category o…
3 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: India in the archives
Whether it’s Jane Eyre transported to India, childrens masks used for political protests or film posters that trigger memories, there are endless fas…
3 years, 6 months ago
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
Varney the Vampire was a blood soaked gothic horror story serialised in cheap print over the course of a couple of years in the nineteenth century. T…
3 years, 6 months ago
David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
David Chalmers is credited with setting the terms for much of the work done in the philosophy of mind today when he posed the 'hard problem' of consc…
3 years, 6 months ago
Belief, Habit & Religion
For evolutionary scientists studying religion, it's more fruitful to examine what people do in religious contexts, rather than listen to what they sa…
3 years, 6 months ago