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New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people
Islam Issa hears from actor Adrian Lester and Professor Ewan Fernie about a project that will revive the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library. Fou…
6 years, 1 month ago
Japan Now 2020
Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, and Yukiko Motoya, look at women's roles in Japanese culture today plus the Japanese view of English-language literature w…
6 years, 1 month ago
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…
6 years, 2 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,…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 months ago