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Anish Kapoor - a Life in Art
Season 12 Episode 9
An icon whose spectacular works occupy a liminal space between sculpture, engineering and architecture, Anish Kapoor is one of the world’s most ambit…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green - The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine
Season 5 Episode 8
On New Year’s Day 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneum…
4 years, 10 months ago
Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown
Season 5 Episode 7
Willis Wu mostly gets to play Generic Asian Man. If he is lucky, sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced So…
4 years, 10 months ago
Mike Rothschild - The Rise of QAnon
In 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark at a gathering of military officials, describing it as ‘the calm before the storm’-then refused to exp…
4 years, 11 months ago
Lisa Taddeo and Hadley Freeman - Madness, Transgression, and Power
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women was a world-wide sensation – forever changing how we think about women and desire. A bestseller in the US and the UK, “Book…
4 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Kahneman - Why We Make Bad Judgments
Season 5 Episode 4
The quality of professional judgments have a huge and lasting impact on all of our lives: the decision of an A&E doctor treating a patient, a teacher…
4 years, 11 months ago
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Season 5 Episode 3
Join us for a wild journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake. Taking us on wi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez - Mother of Invention
Season 5 Episode 2
Every day, extraordinary inventions and innovative ideas are side-lined in a world that remains subservient to men.
But it doesn’t have to be this way…
5 years ago
Bill Clinton and James Patterson - The President's Daughter
Season 5 Episode 1
Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of life in the White House, global geopolitics and the upper echelons of power, Bill Clinton teamed up with one o…
5 years ago
Sir David Hare - A Life in Theatre
Season 4 Episode 20
Sir David Hare is renowned across the English-speaking world as the finest political storyteller alive today. In our age of blockbuster musicals and …
5 years ago