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Green Thinking: Future of Work
How green is office working? Have changes since Covid helped us plan for a more environmentally friendly way of working?
Philosopher Dr Alexander Do…
4 years, 7 months ago
Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?
Is encouraging action still art? What does it mean to make art about the environment? Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough brings together a curator, researc…
4 years, 7 months ago
Alice and Dreaming
"Before there were books there were stories". Salman Rushdie's opening words in his collected Essays from 2003-2020. In one of them he reveals that A…
4 years, 7 months ago
New Thinking: The Botanical Past
Should Kew re-label its plants? What do you see when you study a still life painting on the gallery walls? How do nineteenth century authors depict d…
4 years, 7 months ago
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
'What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence'. Thus ends the only book the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein published in his lifetime. But…
4 years, 7 months ago
Fashion, Art, and the Body
Wearing denim, workwear, or sharp tailoring makes a statement about how we think of ourselves. Charlie Porter has been exploring the relationship bet…
4 years, 7 months ago
Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
The Startup Wife is the title of Tahmima Anam's latest novel. Anne McElvoy talks to her about writing about the work/life balance and ideas about ris…
4 years, 7 months ago
Who needs critics?
Is Gogglebox the main place on TV where you now find criticism? What does that tell us about the role of the critic today? Suzi Feay, Arifa Akbar and…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
A ghostly Franco visits an elderly man in the latest novel by Patrick McGrath. He joins historian Duncan Wheeler and the makers of a prize winning do…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
Toussaint Louverture's revolutionary leadership in Haiti; Ravenna's place as a hub of culture and a meeting point of East and West; how motherhood an…
4 years, 7 months ago