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28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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What do The Mask, Thor, and The Saga of the Viking Women and their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent ? And what has this all got to do with Richard Wagner? Show more
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45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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To coincide with the opening of the second part of film director Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, Matthew Sweet explores 'slaying the dragon', from Beowulf to Smaug. Show more
28 minutes
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For Christmas Day, Sheila celebrates the Wild Boar Feast, an ancient Viking tradition which still survives in Britain. Show more
30 minutes
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With Samira Ahmed. Including new Swedish drama Jordskott, a new play exploring internet pornography, unfinished art at the Courtauld Gallery and novelist Rebecca Dinerstein. Show more
In front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough introduces the ten academics selected as the 2017 cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Matthew Sweet presents. With a discussion on Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation, an exhibition about fashion at London's Barbican and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on Norse gods. Show more
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discusses the In Between and the strange passions it arouses with a philosopher, an artist, a writer, a poet and a neuroscientist. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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From Ecuador to the Scottish borders: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to Maren Meinhardt and Graham Robb about exploring the Scottish borders and the Ecuador seen by Humboldt. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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How to see a landscape through the eyes of visual artist Tacita Dean plus what photography did for the mountaineer and what the mountain did for a physicist. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Fern Ridell, Shahida Rahman and Miranda Garrett discuss the history of women's suffrage with Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition with Gareth Williams and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Lincoln Paine discusses his history of navigation and seafaring. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Tim O'Reilly discusses algorithmic regulation and what 2.0 government involves with Anne McElvoy. Plus exhibitions at the British Library and Dulwich exploring crossover fiction. Show more
Author Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discuss the god Loki and the power of Norse mythology. Recorded at the Free Thinking Festival for the Northern Lights season. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey, and Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hampton and Adjoa Andoh about Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Plus Star Wars and a TV version of Beowulf. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy reviews David Tennant in Richard II, discusses nuclear security with Eric Schlosser, the rhythms of Old English and the poetry of Basil Bunting. Show more
