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Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Rana Mitter is joined by Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves to explore the books which inspired Shakespeare from the Bible and classical sto…
5 years, 8 months ago
Deep Time and the Earth
Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.
Gaia Vince is the author of Transendence: How Humans Evolved Th…
5 years, 9 months ago
Belonging
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards and asks them for their views on the way identity and a sense of b…
5 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives
From the experiences of Quaker wives in the seventeenth century to the samplers and bibles in the homes of workers in the Industrial Revolution - Dr …
5 years, 9 months ago
Revisit: What does game playing teach us
University Challenge star Bobby Seagull, writer and critic Jordan Erica Webber, games consultant and researcher Dr Laura Mitchell, and British Museum…
5 years, 9 months ago
Knees
From dance to prayer, servants to scientists, knees ups to being on our knees - Matthew Sweet talks to art critic Louisa Buck, historian and New Gene…
5 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Wordsworth
April 7th 1770 was the day William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria. As we prepare to mark this anniversary, poet and New Generation Think…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Declaration Of Arbroath
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath and Scottish politics today. She is joined by Kylie Murray, New …
5 years, 9 months ago
How do we build a new masculinity ?
Artist and photographer Sunil Gupta, authors CN Lester (Trans Like Me) and Tom Shakespeare (The Sexual Politics of Disability), and Barbican curator …
5 years, 9 months ago
What's so great about EM Forster
Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the writer's work from his earliest novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to his Essay …
5 years, 9 months ago