Podcast Episodes

Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Presenter Rana Mitter is joined by guests Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova to discuss Rachel Carson’s passionate book,…

6 years ago

Alternative Realities

From a Victorian Maths Professor to Aldous Huxley, AJ Ayer and Barbara Ehrenreich - Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life changing experiences & …

6 years ago

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…

6 years 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…

6 years 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…

6 years 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 …

6 years 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…

6 years 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…

6 years 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…

6 years 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 …

6 years, 1 month ago