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Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, current director of the Francis Crick Institute, and Tristram Hunt, historian and now director of the V&A, debate the impa…
7 years, 1 month ago
Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
As her award-winning debut play, Nine Night, comes to London's West End, Natasha Gordon tells Anne about the grieving ritual that binds in the Jamaic…
7 years, 1 month ago
Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
The director of the 1971 film Get Carter, which starred Michael Caine, has now written his own crime novellas. Mike Hodges talks to Matthew Sweet. If…
7 years, 1 month ago
Slavery Stories
A long lost classic by William Melvin Kelley, who coined the term "woke" back in 1962 in a New York Times article, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted n…
7 years, 1 month ago
Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
Should we worry about the world getting healthier? Thomas Bollyky thinks we should. Jane Stevens Crawshaw looks at cleanliness and disease in Renaiss…
7 years, 1 month ago
Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
Doris Kearns Goodwin on POTUS, crisis management and ambition - from Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt through FDR and LBJ to Donald Trump. Novelist Geo…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Left Behind
Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, immigration and populism. Plus Hungarian politics with cultural historian, Krisztina Robert,…
7 years, 1 month ago
What kind of history should we write?
Peter Frankopan brings his history of ties across Asia into the present while Maya Jasanoff, winner of the world's richest history prize, uses the no…
7 years, 1 month ago
Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.
A 3,000 year old Iranian ritual, archaeology on a council estate, and London's Greek Cypriot community: Matthew Sweet hops on the 29 bus route, puts …
7 years, 1 month ago
Death rituals
From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way healthcare professionals cope when patients die. Eleanor Barraclough looks at…
7 years, 1 month ago