Sophie Coulombeau challenges the way we look at failure in the story of an 18th century cleric and entrepreneur. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas 2018. Show more

Mary Carleton is possibly the most famous imposter of the 17th century. John Gallagher argues that the story of the 'German Princess' questions what evidence we can believe. Show more

Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England by the writer Sarah Scott. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. Show more

New Generation Thinker Seb Falk explores, with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas, the trilingual lawyer poet whose response to political upheaval has lessons for our times. Show more

New Generation Thinker Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. Show more