From prison breaks to VR dinosaurs: insights from the AHRC & 大象传媒's scheme for academics.
Dr Islam Issa contemplates the social and cultural significance of the Balcony.
New Generation Thinkers test their theories in the real world.
Seb Falk talks to researchers about attitudes to Mars, seeing colour and Skylab's crash.
Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.
Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
Five New Generation Thinkers each propose a novel they consider worthy of reappraisal.
John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records.
From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars and Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.
New Generation Thinker Islam Issa looks at Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
Fiona Stafford asks why artists are drawn to the imaginative possibilities of the forest.
From the most private space to office: Matthew Sweet, Tiffany Watt Smith and Fern Riddell.
Activist Obi Egbuna, Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, Japanese child star Misora Hibari
From Tudor courts to plantations to the Arab Spring: a Bristol Festival of Ideas debate.
Tiffany Watt-Smith explores the interest of Victorian scientists in our urge to imitate.
Anindya Raychaudhuri considers people's memories of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain.
Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.
John Carey, Mandy Green, Islam Issa and Joe Moshenska discuss Milton's Paradise Lost.
Professor Griffin highlights the unpaid and emotional work that often goes unrecognised.
Zoe Norridge reports from Rwanda on how the country's devastating genocide is remembered.
Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?
