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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 …
6 years, 1 month 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 …
6 years, 1 month ago
Future Thinking
Mark Honigsbaum historian of epidemics, literary scholars Lisa Mullen & Sarah Dillon, UNESCO's Riel Miller & philosopher Rupert Read talk with Matthe…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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 …
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month ago