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The well-groomed Georgian
New Generation Thinker Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth. Recorded before an audience at the York Festiva…
6 years, 10 months ago
Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
Johny Pitts, Caryl Phillips and Nat Illumine discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet. Plus New Generation Thinker Dina Rezk on Jehan…
6 years, 10 months ago
Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement
The American sculptor Michael Rakowitz on how his own Iraqi heritage drove him to make art about the disappearance of artefacts and people. From sham…
6 years, 10 months ago
Breaking Down the Barriers
Rana Mitter hears about a project that assesses the experiences of Muslim women in the UK cultural industries and talks to political artist John Kean…
6 years, 10 months ago
Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.
Peter Pomerantsev, Joanna Kavenna, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and Dorian Lynskey join Matthew Sweet to debate George Orwell's vision of a wor…
6 years, 10 months ago
Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI & Anne McElvoy talks to David Brooks and Hilary Cottam about compassion…
6 years, 10 months ago
AI and creativity: what makes us human?
Joy Buolamwini founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and MIT media lab researcher, Anders Sandberg of the Future of the Human Institute at Oxford…
6 years, 10 months ago
Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
How does writing about art help us embrace a new way of seeing the work ? Rana Mitter is joined at the Hay Festival by the novelist and art essayist …
6 years, 10 months ago
Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rachel Carson’s passionate book, Silent Spring, first published in 1962 is said to be the work which launched the environmental movement. But how doe…
6 years, 10 months ago
Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
Author Nicola Upson has imagined the life of Stanley Spencer from the viewpoint of his maidservant. Ella Parry-Davies researches the lives of women f…
6 years, 11 months ago