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New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
Everyday lives from the past are often hard to reconstruct. As we prepare for the Census 2021, what stories can we tell from past censuses and the re…
4 years, 9 months ago
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
Edogawa Rampo's stories give us a Japanese version of Sherlock Holmes. New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding traces the way detective fiction ch…
4 years, 9 months ago
Edward Said's thinking
Orientalism was his book, published in 1978, which outlined Said's view that imperialism and a romanticised version of Arab Culture clouded the way t…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Vietnam Paris connection
Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its follow-up takes the lead character to Parisian salons and an underw…
4 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk
Mars is the focus of current space exploration but how far back does this interest go? Dr Joshua Nall tells Seb Falk about the Mars globe held at the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking
From prejudice against accents to early attempts to create an artificial voice - Matthew Sweet is joined by the academics Sadie Ryan, Allison Koeneck…
4 years, 10 months ago
Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Paranoia, the collateral damage on his family and the investigations he makes into drugs used to treat such a breakdown: Horatio Clare talks to Laure…
4 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: Girls
The films Cuties and Rocks present a contemporary image of girlhood. What do they tell us about what it is to be a girl and to negotiate growing up? …
4 years, 10 months ago
Saint John Henry Newman
Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and no…
4 years, 10 months ago
Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Shahidha Bari is joined by Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, and Stephen Shapiro to read volume 4 of Foucault's History of Sexuality, translated into Engli…
4 years, 10 months ago