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Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Democracy, Hong Kong and USA Free Thinking
Hong Kong has seen elections postponed, pro-democracy protesters arrested and a sweeping new national secur…
5 years, 5 months ago
Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo
Teaching writing - mentors Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes. Plus as Georges Perec's memoir I Remember is published in English for the fir…
5 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Films and Research
Melting glaciers, cacophonous refugee camps, voices in heads, bathroom altercations and indigenous communities in crisis are the subjects of this yea…
5 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant? Des Fitzgerald speaks to researchers investigating the past and future…
5 years, 5 months ago
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe? Shahidha Bari makes a virtual visit to the University of Derb…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What does it mean to make art to commemorate histories of conflict? Anne McElvoy's guests are artists Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, Art Fund director…
5 years, 5 months ago
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the history and ideas behind the charity shop, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters - aspects of N…
5 years, 5 months ago
Billy Wilder
Mr Wilder & Me is the title of the new novel from Jonathan Coe, who won the Costa Prize for his book Middle England. He is one of Matthew Sweet's gue…
5 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
This November sees the 25th anniversary of the UK Disability Discrimination Act. As we consider what contemporary progress has been made we'll uncove…
5 years, 5 months ago
War in fact and fiction
From East Africa to Arabia, the First World War to Mozambique, Rana Mitter discusses the impact of war on society and culture. Margaret MacMillan's m…
5 years, 5 months ago