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Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
From online dance, pavement performances of plays, and the part played by audiences in Greek theatres and Shakespeare's Globe - how is performance ad…
5 years, 5 months ago
Individualism and Community
From carers and refugees, New Deal America in the 30s back to Enlightenment values - Anne McElvoy explores the intersections between community and th…
5 years, 5 months ago
The post-Covid city
How has the pandemic changed our experience of urban space and what is the future for cities like London? Caleb Femi was young people's poetry laure…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
His stinging critique of European colonial racism and hypocrisy Discours sur le Colonialisme was first published in 1950. How does it resonate today?…
5 years, 6 months ago
Polari Prize winners
Sunil Gupta says his photographs ask what does it mean to be a gay Indian man? Shahidha Bari looks at his work and talks to the winners of the 2020 P…
5 years, 6 months ago
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
How a Croydon housewife baffled a 1930s ghost hunter - the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale, talks to Matthew Sweet about her…
5 years, 6 months ago
Post Truth & Derrida
Jacques Derrida was the superstar philosopher of the 1980s and 90s. Often associated with the philosophical movement known as 'poststructualism', he …
5 years, 6 months ago
Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid discuss capturing different forms of speech, a sense of place, and politics - in a conversation organ…
5 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking about Museums
From a VR version of Viking life and what you can learn from gaming, to describing collections in military museums, to the range of independent museu…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Directors of the Hermitage, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the National Gallery, Singapore explain how they are dealing both with the …
5 years, 6 months ago