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What Makes a Good Lecture?
Mary Beard, Homi Bhabha and Seán Williams join Shahidha Bari to look at the etiquette of talks on zoom and the history of lectures. Lecturing someone…
4 years, 11 months ago
Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
Discovering his family's Nazi links is what happened to historian Martin Puchner when he set out to explore the use of a secret language by Jewish pe…
4 years, 11 months ago
Food, The Environment & Richard Flanagan
Lab meat and robot bees: how veganism and tech can solve the climate crisis. Anne McElvoy considers how food impacts on the environment with guests A…
4 years, 11 months ago
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
In his 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, John Rawls argued that just societies should allow everyone to enjoy basic liberties while limiting inequality…
4 years, 11 months ago
James Baldwin and race in USA
Eddie Glaude Jr and Nadia Owusu compare notes on the relevance of James Baldwin's writing to understanding Donald Trump's America. Michael Burleigh g…
4 years, 11 months ago
Harlots & 18th Century Working Women
Harlots - the TV series about 18th century female sex workers - and translating historical fact into onscreen drama. Shahidha Bari is joined by Halli…
4 years, 11 months ago
Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
The devil's daughter features in a new novel from Jenni Fagan; Salena Godden's debut novel imagines Mrs Death. To discuss conjuring fear, they join S…
5 years ago
New Thinking: Women and Slavery
New research on female slave owners in Britain, women on Caribbean plantations, and the daughter of a prominent slave trader. Christienna Fryar talks…
5 years ago
Autism, film and patterns
If, and, then are the 3 words which underpin Simon Baron-Cohen's exploration of how humans reason and develop solutions to problems in his latest boo…
5 years ago
New Thinking: Aphra Behn
From spy to one of the first professional woman writers in Britain - Aphra Behn was a prolific playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer in the…
5 years ago