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The shadow of empire and colonialism
Historian William Dalrymple, Wasafiri editor Susheila Nasta and novelist Romesh Gunesekera join Rana Mitter for a conversation looking at the East In…
6 years, 1 month ago
Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
Author Priya Basil and curator Victoria Avery look at food, fasting and feeding guests. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is their host as the FitzWilliam…
6 years, 1 month ago
When TV & the information superhighway were new
Nam June Paik made art with TV sets and imagined an information superhighway before the internet was invented. John Giorno organised multi-media and …
6 years, 1 month ago
Resting And Rushing
Should we take more breaks at during the working day? Claudia Hammond, Matthew Smith, Sarah Cook and Ayesha Nathoo discuss the art of rest and concen…
6 years, 1 month ago
The future of universities
Economist Larry Summers, former President of Harvard lays out his view of a university and Philip Dodd debates with the OU's Josie Fraser, classicist…
6 years, 1 month ago
Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China - Jung Chang and Julia Lovell. Jung Chang's latest book Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister looks at the l…
6 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: George Eliot
Shahidha Bari discusses the state of scholarship on George Eliot at her bicentenary with Ruth Livesey and Helen O'Neill, both at Royal Holloway, Univ…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Mill on the Floss
Writer Rebecca Mead, actor Fiona Shaw + academics Dafydd Mills Daniel, Philip Davis & Peggy Reynolds read George Eliot's 1860 novel portraying siblin…
6 years, 1 month ago
Are the arts saving Margate?
Investigating regeneration and gentrification, the Turner Contemporary, the 2019 Turner Prize exhibition, writer Maggie Gee on her novel Blood, & the…
6 years, 1 month ago
Why We Need New News
New research looking at at reporting secret assassinations, countering propaganda & how we could update TV news bulletins, from the Being Human Festi…
6 years, 1 month ago