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New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop
Darragh McGee takes the long view of the risk-based games we have played throughout history. He explores the experiences of their losers and the mora…
5 years ago
Links between Judaism and Christianity
From the Jewishness of the New Testament to attempts by 19th- and early 20th-century British Jews to blend in to Christian England, Giles Fraser show…
5 years ago
Epistemic Injustice
Was Marx wrong when he said that philosophers can only interpret the world in various ways, and contrasted that with actually changing it?
Epistemolog…
5 years ago
New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers
The First Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris 1956 staged debates about colonial history which are still playing out in the protests of th…
5 years ago
New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds
Gold fob seals, Sheffield silver, Mesolithic stone tools - these were some of the discoveries detailed in the 28 papers, books and pamphlets publishe…
5 years ago
New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far
Chinatown, New York, in 1890 was described by photo-journalist Jacob Riis as "disappointing." He focused only on images of opium dens and gambling an…
5 years ago
New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?
Vivian Maier left over 150,000 negatives when she died in 2009. Her boxes and boxes of unprinted street photographs were stacked alongside shoulder-h…
5 years ago
Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
5 years ago
New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup
The potato famine saw a Dublin barracks turned into place where starving people were given six minutes to eat their soup in silence. Tom Scott-Smith …
5 years ago
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
Friendship, domestic violence, power dynamics in the home, and debates about the ethics of war - all topics we can find in the dramas of Shakespeare.…
5 years ago