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Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Laurence Scott, Will Self and New Generation Thinkers Lisa Mullen and Danielle Thom look at redundant features in design plus a visit to Collect: Int…
7 years, 1 month ago
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the previously untold stories of the five women killed by the Ripper and challenges the myths that have grown up a…
7 years, 1 month ago
Images of Japan
Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.
7 years, 2 months ago
Authority in the Era of Populism
What is required of a good leader in an age of disruption? Jamie Bartlett, Professor Mary Kaldor, Dame Louise Casey, Dame Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Re…
7 years, 2 months ago
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.
7 years, 2 months ago
Patti LuPone
How loud should you be? Italian American performer Patti LuPone talks to Philip Dodd about why she doesn’t consider herself an American, her politics…
7 years, 2 months ago
Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture: John Gallagher on civility, Emily Butterworth on news and gossip…
7 years, 2 months ago
Love
Poet Andrew McMillan, philosopher and psychologist Laura Mucha, poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw & writer Elanor Dymott explores who and why we lov…
7 years, 2 months ago
Africa Babel China
West Africa has a fundamental place in the shaping of the modern world and its story is told in a new history by Toby Green. He joins Rana Mitter in …
7 years, 2 months ago
Spike Lee
The film-maker Spike Lee talks to Matthew Sweet about black power and prejudice, the politics of blackface, and the Oscars as his film BlacKkKlansman…
7 years, 2 months ago