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Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
Since 1983, Spike Lee's production company has produced over 35 films. His 1989 film Do The Right Thing was nominated for Best Original Screenplay i…
6 years, 5 months ago
Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Taking their inspiration from the Russian and Finnish composers of 2019 Prom 22, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and an audience at Imperial College Lon…
6 years, 5 months ago
Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
1996 was the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, the Beatles’ Abbey Road and a gathering of beat poets at the Royal Albert Hall. Author and New G…
6 years, 5 months ago
Proms Plus: Music and Health
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice with psychologist Dr Daisy Fancourt, a psychologist and epidemiologist who studies th…
6 years, 5 months ago
Proms Plus: Moon Landing
As the Proms marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings, Professor Richard Wiseman, author of ‘Shoot For The Moon’ and Melanie Vandenbrouc…
6 years, 5 months ago
Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at book frontispieces, dust jackets, footnotes, indexes and marginalia with Dennis Duncan, and explores a research project invest…
6 years, 5 months ago
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy and new ways of understanding post-war Germany and Austria through history, film and literature with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam…
6 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
Hetta Howes learns that the absence of dental floss in the Neolithic era has left archaeologists with invaluable information about how our ancestors …
6 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language uses corpus linguistics, a statistical method that collates data on how frequently words are used and how ofte…
6 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
What is the metaphysical status of an unborn fetus in relation to its mother? Is it possible to know what pregnancy will mean for you before you beco…
6 years, 5 months ago