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Future Thinking
Mark Honigsbaum historian of epidemics, literary scholars Lisa Mullen & Sarah Dillon, UNESCO's Riel Miller & philosopher Rupert Read talk with Matthe…
5 years, 9 months ago
Contagion and Viruses
Matthew Sweet investigates viruses and how they could disrupt our understanding of the nature of organisms, and looks at what history can teach us ab…
5 years, 9 months ago
Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos. Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade, with guests including Thomas Turner, who has written about sneak…
5 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Science Fiction
It's sometimes defined as 'the literature of cognitive estrangement'. In other words, it's a genre that helps us see things in a new light. Hetta Ho…
5 years, 9 months ago
Does Growth Matter?
The rate of social and technological change in the 20th century was unarguably frenetic. A key measure used by politicians, economists and journalist…
5 years, 9 months ago
Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
Entertainment writer Caroline Frost, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet as exhibitions ab…
5 years, 10 months ago
Advertising & Artemisia
New Generation Thinker Catherine Fletcher and Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones join Rana Mitter to discuss how women's stories have shaped art and …
5 years, 10 months ago
Fighting Women
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright join Eleanor Barraclough to look at women's experience of fighting from Ethiopia's war with Mussoli…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.
5 years, 10 months ago
Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
What is a writer's duty? Katie Cooper considers Storm Jameson's campaigning for refugees, her 1940 appeal To the Conscience of the World and why her …
5 years, 10 months ago