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Rana Mitter hears new research on how to build a happy city. Historian Ramachandra Guha on how Gandhi's time in South Africa influenced his thinking. Chapman Brothers art reviewed. Show more
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Zhang Weiwei, one of China's foremost public intellectuals, talks to Rana Mitter about why his country should not become a democracy. 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
Field scientists Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee discuss long-lived animal species, their survival strategies and how their lives have shaped the minds of those who study them. Show more
A special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley, as Rana Mitter reflects on the writer and the books which helped the British like the idea of Britain. Show more
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Sarah Perry and Carol Birch on setting their novels in the 19th century, plus Victorian amusements and the 19th century in modern culture. Show more
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With a discussion about medieval illuminated manuscripts, author Emma Donoghue talking about her new novel and Dennis Duncan on the story of Boris Vian. Show more
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Matthew Sweet on Sydney Newman, the Canadian who transformed 60s TV. Plus poet Vahni Capildeo on her award-winning collection and contemporary Arab art at the Shubbak Festival. Show more
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Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter to discuss research into the way the Reformation changed lives in homes, parishes and monasteries. Show more
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Rana Mitter is joined by the six authors shortlisted for the 2017 Wolfson History Prize and an audience at the British Academy for a discussion about the past into the present. Show more
New generation thinkers Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott discuss the aesthetic and holistic aspects of running with four converts from the worlds of arts and academia. Show more
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With debates about empathy, rigorous thinking and the welfare state, plus writer Yaa Gyaasi on the importance of home for Africans and African-Americans. Show more
Matthew Sweet discusses memory and Marnie with guests, including Andrew Graham - son of Marnie author Winston. Show more
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Matthew Sweet with poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, scientists Jules Pretty and Andrew Scott and historians, Philip Coupland and Matthew Kelly, about Soil Culture and Survival Show more
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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
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Svetlana Alexievich speaks on oral history told by Russian women in World War Two, and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin. Rana Mitter sees a musical depicting Soviet hipsters and hippies. Show more
Rana Mitter hosts a debate asking if in the hunger for new ideas we are forgetting the lessons of the past. With shepherd James Rebanks and cultural anthropologist Veronica Strang. Show more
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In an event recorded at the 2016 Hay festival, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to discuss the subject of inheritance. Show more
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Rana Mitter and guests explore changes to UK archaelogical digs, challenges facing the profession and underwater explorations on show at the Ashmolean and British Museums. Show more
Artist Dorothy Cross, author Joanna Kavenna, cosmologist Jo Dunkley and New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson join Matthew Sweet for a programme exploring mysticism and reality. Show more
