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The Legacy of the Trojan War
Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city in Asia still cast such a long shadow? Novelist and classics expert Natalie Haynes, Alev Scott author…
6 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
Hetta Howes is on the red carpet at this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards at the British Film Institute on London's South Bank, where she talks to…
6 years, 1 month ago
Being Human: Love Stories
Naomi Paxton assembles a squad of researchers to talk about dating, relationships, and what how we fall in love says about us from the National Archi…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Changing Image of Masculinity.
"Man Up". "He's Safe" "No Homo" How do men talk and write about masculinity? Laurence Scott talks to authors Ben Lerner, Derek Owusu and JJ Bola abou…
6 years, 1 month ago
Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
Matthew Sweet, performers Lucy McCormick and Gateau Chocolat, curator Florence Ostende, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and Gaylene Gould with an …
6 years, 2 months ago
The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Who decides what’s worth saving and what is culturally significant to protect in wartimes and war zones? The panel, hosted by Anne McElvoy, are:
Sir P…
6 years, 2 months ago
Quatermass
Dr Who collaborators Mark Gatiss & Stephen Moffat, academics Una McCormack & Claire Langhamer and Matthew Kneale join Matthew Sweet to celebrate Nige…
6 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
As the 30th anniversary of the Berlin wall falling is marked on November 9th we rummage for stories amid the rubble. What were school teachers in Ber…
6 years, 2 months ago
Halloween. Ghost Stories
Shahidha Bari's guests include author Kirsty Logan and former League of Gentlemen writer and performer Jeremy Dyson, whose play Ghost Stories is back…
6 years, 2 months ago
Cars, Parking and Motorways
Where are we? How did we get here, and where are we going?
Our relationship with the self-propelled small metal boxes in which we spend so much of our…
6 years, 2 months ago