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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, 5 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, 5 months ago
Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham join Matthew Sweet at the British Library in a discussion organised with the Royal Society of Literature.
Maki…
6 years, 5 months ago
Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Rachel Reeves MP, Hull academic Jane Thomas and New Generation Thinker Katie Cooper discuss the novel South Riding and the writing and politics of Wi…
6 years, 6 months ago
What to Believe
Rana Mitter and guests look at the history of atheism and morality. Alec Ryrie's new book 'Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt' argues that th…
6 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: First Encounters
Should we really be celebrating the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Cortés and European settlers in Mexico? Is this a "first encounter" - and how…
6 years, 6 months ago
Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
How welcome are selfies in modern art galleries and museums? What kind of labelling should be on display and should more objects be repatriated? Laur…
6 years, 6 months ago
Dictators
Matthew Sweet on Chaplin's 1941 film and rising populism today with guests including Francesca Santoro L'hoir who acted alongside Chaplin as a child …
6 years, 6 months ago
The Woolly Episode
From Sean the Sheep & Damien Hirst to a knitted bikini. Shahidha Bari with a woolly episode talks to writer and knitter Esther Rutter, shepherd Axel …
6 years, 6 months ago
2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Anne McElvoy talks prehistory with archaeologist Mike Pitts and artist Renee So plus critic Alex Clark gives her take on this year's Booker Prize win…
6 years, 6 months ago