Eleanor Lybeck on protests, popular culture and the pioneering Victorian women who saw education as a first step towards emancipation. Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead. Show more
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Alistair Fraser talks about teenagers, street life and filling time. Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. Show more
New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher looks at what we learn about war from the writing of child soldiers in The Battle of Trafalgar and the childhood writings of the Bronte family. Show more
Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and the relevance of strategies for telling truth to those who hold power over us now. Show more
New Generation Thinker Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, looks at AI and what the writing of Douglas Adams tells us about who should be in control. Show more
The propaganda battle for the Second World War, which included a fashion show in Buenos Aires but left out football fixtures. Recorded with a Sage Gateshead audience. Show more
New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes looks at male fears and why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying and bleeding. Recorded at the Free Thinking Festival Sage Gateshead. Show more
Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health - people who play a musical instrument have a lower risk of developing dementia - so should we prescribe the arts? Show more
New Generation Thinker Tom Simpson looks at a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village and the lessons it has for community relations and social tribes now. Show more