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Rivers, different cultures, different values
Rivers, different cultures, different values

Should we widen the net of who has a say over river management and would this be better for our rivers and ultimately ourselves. What are rivers them…

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Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

With an audience at the British Library, Professor Bhabha gives a short talk and discusses ideas about nations and a postcolonial approach to politic…

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Rivers and geopolitics
Rivers and geopolitics

The worlds large water infrastructure projects often result in geo-political flashpoints - Rana Mitter hears from Majed Akhter about problems from th…

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Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.

Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone with Christopher Frayling and Samira Ahmed. They also look at the film worlds of Stanley Kubr…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.

Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer by Marion Turner called Chaucer: A European Life and talks to writer Bernardine Evaristo about her depi…

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Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

Rana Mitter and an audience at the British Academy hear from the six historians on this year's shortlist. The books are:

Building Anglo-Saxon England…

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Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model

Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott on the 19th century writers who shaped the idea of America.

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Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize

Kierkegaard humiliated the woman he was due to marry by publicly breaking the engagement - yet one of his most important books is a detailed analysis…

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Landmark: Audre Lorde
Landmark: Audre Lorde

Poet Jackie Kay & performer Selina Thompson plus Jonathan Rollins and Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins the children of Audre Lorde discuss the influence of th…

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Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers

From Berlin techno music to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, divisive dams to fake news - hear the research topics of 10 early career academics introduced by…

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