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Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Oscar winning Midnight Cowboy was followed up by this drama about an artist who has relationships with a female job consultant and a male doctor.…
4 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems
HIV's origins and colonial history have inspired the collection of poems by Kayo Chingonyi, which has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best C…
4 years, 6 months ago
Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities
Cities produce more than half the world’s carbon emissions and are home to more than half the world’s population. So what role might cities play in t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic
Bait depicted Cornish second-home owners in a tense relationship with local fishermen. The 2019 film's director Mark Jenkin is one of Laurence Scott'…
4 years, 6 months ago
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Heritage
What role do museums and heritage organisations have to play in the climate emergency? How do we stop cultural and historical landmarks from falling …
4 years, 6 months ago
World's Fairs and the future
From the Great Exhibition of 1851 to Shanghai 2010, Owen Hatherley, Emily MacGregor and Paul Greenhalgh explore visions of the future offered by worl…
4 years, 6 months ago
Green Thinking: Climate Change and Literature
Poets Yvonne Reddick and John Wedgewood Clarke are using poetry and creative writing to explore our, and their, relationships with the environment. J…
4 years, 6 months ago
Mid Century Modern
Peace, prosperity and formica - that's one way of describing the vision on show at the Festival of Britain in 1951. But domesticity had a radical sid…
4 years, 6 months ago
Building London
Stew, the name for brothels in London. A townhouse set to become luxury flats in the centre of Soho is the focus of the new novel Hot Stew from Fiona…
4 years, 6 months ago
Masks
From Greek tragedy to Covid conspiracies via LGBTQI activism in Uganda, artist Leilah Babirye, classicist Natalie Haynes and BBC correspondent Marian…
4 years, 6 months ago