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Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Vietnam, ecological worries and poverty and suffering inspired the lyrics in Marvin Gaye's 1971 album What's Going On. Written as a song cycle from t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Kick-starting second-wave feminism with her 1949 book The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir was a key member of the Parisian circle of Existentialists a…
4 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: Being Human 2021
Deciphering Dickens's shorthand, how the National Health Service uses graphic art to convey messages, creating a comic strip from Greek myths: these …
4 years, 2 months ago
Green Thinking: Climate Justice
Melting perma-frost in Alaska has led to crooked housing, an eroded air-strip and changes to the hunting and fishing diets of the inhabitants. But ar…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021
Cold, civil, world, uprising, conflict, war on terror: Anne McElvoy and her guests Elif Shafak, Christina Lamb, Lincoln Jopp and Hilary Roberts explo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Green Thinking: Future of Home
Eliminating plastic from building houses, creating a house out of construction waste – rubble, chalk, ply timber and second hand nuts and bolts – and…
4 years, 2 months ago
God's Body
Modern theology often treats God as an abstract principle: a mover that doesn't move. But in the Bible, Abraham walks alongside him, Jacob (arguably)…
4 years, 2 months ago
Green Thinking: Activism and Young People
How can zines and board games help us understand climate change? Projects in Birmingham and Glasgow are using these techniques to allow young people …
4 years, 2 months ago
Green Thinking: Energy
Is district heating, not boilers, the answer to lowering our energy use? How should we think of decommissioned factories? Professor Frank Trentmann a…
4 years, 2 months ago
Caesar, Hogarth and images of power
Caesars with the wrong beard, faint laurels in the background of a scene from Hogarth's A Rake's Progress and the experiences of the guardian of empt…
4 years, 2 months ago