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Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction. New Generation Thinker Islam Issa on Epstein's Lucifer scu…
6 years, 9 months ago
Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
The art of Cindy Sherman; art critic Laura Cumming on finding out the history behind the days her mother disappeared as a child on a Lincolnshire bea…
6 years, 9 months ago
Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
Jane Goodall is giving a talk at the British Academy on the work of the Jane Goodall Foundation with chimpanzees, protecting the environment with loc…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
New Generation Thinker Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. T…
6 years, 10 months ago
'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The history of the three-piece suit
New Generation Thinker Sarah Goldsmith's Essay introduces an audience at York Festival of Ideasto Beau Brummel and others who have understood the mix…
6 years, 10 months ago
James Ellroy
Philip Dodd is in conversation with the American author James Ellroy, whose books include LA Confidential and his latest, This Storm, part of his ong…
6 years, 10 months ago
Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali
Anne McElvoy, former Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC & novelist Benjamin Markovits on the new TV Catch-22. Jade Halbert on recycling fashion. Poet Fred D'Agu…
6 years, 10 months ago
Comrades in Arms
New Generation Thinker Tom Smith's Essay argues that the East German army had a reputation for unbending masculinity so it's surprising how central q…
6 years, 10 months ago
Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Eimear McBride is the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and The Lesser Bohemians Professor Finn Fordham from Royal Holloway, University of Lond…
6 years, 10 months ago
Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher on the first soldier memoirs to talk about pain, terror and trauma. The Napoleonic Wars, like all wars, had their…
6 years, 10 months ago