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Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
Neuroscientist and former record producer Daniel Levitin & geneticist Adam Rutherford join Rana Mitter to discuss the latest scientific discoveries a…
5 years, 10 months ago
African Empire Stories
Petina Gappah on writing David Livingstone's African companions back into history. Sarah LeFanu looks at the Boer War experiences of Rudyard Kipling,…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Matthew Sweet talks to the Chilean French director and gets a take on his occult, drug filled and violently psychedelic world from critics Larushka I…
5 years, 10 months ago
Queer histories
Morgan M Page, Jana Funke & Senthorum Raj look at how we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures both real and fictional and…
5 years, 10 months ago
The History of Sex
Kate Lister started tweeting as Whores of Yore in 2015 to kick off a conversation about how we talk about sex. She has just published A Curious Histo…
5 years, 10 months ago
The shadow of slavery
From sugar and spice, to reparations and memorials: slavery and how we acknowledge it is debated by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her panel of wri…
5 years, 11 months ago
Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?
Alice Guy-Blaché the pioneering film director, a British film pioneer Robert Paul and how the Boer War led to animated film are the topics for discus…
5 years, 11 months ago
Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture
Lisa Dwan tells Philip Dodd what playing Beckett taught her about herself and feminism; playwright Mark Ravenhill, arts editor Jan Dalley & sp!ked au…
5 years, 11 months ago
Mocking power past and present.
The German joker Tyll Ulenspiegel. Anne McElvoy with best selling novelist Daniel Kehlmann plus Prof Karen Leeder who has been looking at changing ve…
5 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution
From government intervention and workshop ingenuity, to Britain's 'mind blowing historical carbon debt' and ground that's been polluted for 200 years…
5 years, 11 months ago