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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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 months ago
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
Are fungi out to get us or here to help? Neither animal nor vegetable, they are both amongst us and within us, shaping or lives in ways it is difficu…
6 years, 2 months ago
How we see pregnancy past and present
From Hans Holbein sketches to Beyoncé on Instagram – Anne McElvoy looks at the changing image of pregnant women in a new exhibition at the Foundling …
6 years, 2 months ago
Remembering Auschwitz
Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces, talks to Rana Mitter about her 1996 novel. Jewish Chronicle Literary Editor and author Gerald Jacobs, and h…
6 years, 2 months ago
What is good listening?
Matthew Sweet with NYT journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf & David Toop in a conversation about paying attention and how to hear each other properly. …
6 years, 3 months ago
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, poets Sam Illingworth and Sunayana Bhargava, and C19 expert and New Generation Thinker Greg Tate from the U…
6 years, 3 months ago
Goddesses of academia
Nikita Gill on goddesses, Sandeep Parmar on Hope Mirlees, Francesca Wade looks at the careers of classicist Jane Harrison and LSE's Eileen Power and …
6 years, 3 months ago
New Thinking: About Face
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant? Des Fitzgerald speaks to two researchers investigating the past and fu…
6 years, 3 months ago
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
100 years on from Isaac Asimov's birth, Matthew Sweet looks at one of the bigger ideas contained in some of his 500 books; Psychohistory.
The idea, f…
6 years, 3 months ago