Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Humans, Animals, Ecologies
Joanna Bourke is an historian whose previous work has looked at fear, pain, sexual violence and dismemberment. Her new book is a history and examinat…
4 years, 10 months ago
Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien & Violette Leduc
Overcoming long term illness, controlling her money and eloping to revolutionary Italy: Fiona Sampson's new biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning f…
4 years, 10 months ago
Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Turkey and 50s Prime Minister Menderes, Erdogan today, and how history is used for political power. Matthew Sweet is joined by Jeremy Seal, Ece Temel…
4 years, 10 months ago
Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies
In Karachi Vice, journalist Samira Shackle tracks the lives of a Karachi ambulance driver, street school teacher and crime reporter amongst others - …
4 years, 10 months ago
Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world
From minting coins to digital currencies, Anne McElvoy is joined by Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, British Museum coin curator Tom Hockenhull, his…
4 years, 11 months ago
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)
Matthew Sweet is joined by Xine Yao, Joe Cain, and Ruth Mace, who've been re-reading Charles Darwin's 1871 book The Descent of Man, and Selection in …
4 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums
What we learn from the tattered costumes of actress Ellen Terry, the couture created by Alexander McQueen, and the everyday wardrobe of American wome…
4 years, 11 months ago
Class and social mobility
How easy is it to climb out of the working class in Britain? Have attitudes to social mobility changed at all? Matthew Sweet talks to Professor Selin…
4 years, 11 months ago
Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman
Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman share their sense of the way digital media, and the layers of history press in on our sense of the present moment …
4 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: Eco-Criticism
From Bessie Head to Keats, Rachel Carson to Lorine Niedecker, Lisa Mullen and guests analyse links between literature and nature as an increasing num…
4 years, 11 months ago