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Outsiders and Colin Wilson, The Vulgar, Norse Sagas

Including Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation, fashion at the Barbican and Norse gods.

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Sound Frontiers: Teju Cole

Writer Teju Cole talks to Philip Dodd about Baldwin, Boko Haram and Black Lives Matter.

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Caravaggio, Bob Dylan, Dario Fo, Lenin's Train Journey

Including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo's plays and Caravaggio's art.

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Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent film classics

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Paul Nash, George Szirtes, Hungary 1956 and now

With a graphic novel based on Paul Nash's dreams, plus religion and revolution in Hungary.

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Artes Mundi Prize, Harriet Walter, Amitav Ghosh, Edmund Richardson

With a review of the 2016 Artes Mundi show, actress Harriet Walter and author Amitav Ghosh

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Richard Hakluyt, Man Booker Prize, Chickens in the Anthropocene, Shirley Jackson

Includes Richard Hakluyt's legacy, chickens and the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

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South African Art: William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Gavin Jantjes.

William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.

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Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art

With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.

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Whose Book Is it Anyway?

Anne McElvoy and her panel of guests explore the rise of reading in Britain.

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Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant. Yuval Noah Harari.

Linda Grant and Stephen Poliakoff join Philip Dodd to discuss post-World War II Britain.

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Landmark: Waverley

Rana Mitter presents a special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley.

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Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All

Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch. Plus Victorian amusements.

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Black British History

Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on black Britain.

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Art Spiegelman, Marina Abramovic, American Pastoral

Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston on their collaboration.

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Being Human Debate at Fact, Liverpool: Man and Animals

From Fact in Liverpool, Rana Mitter and guests debate mermaids, robots, humans and animals

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Being Human: Vernon Lee, Lying, Coma

With a profile of writer Vernon Lee, what it means to lie and popular ideas of the 'coma'.

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Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetary and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

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Beards, Listening, Masculinity

Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum on fatherhood. With Matthew Sweet

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Zadie Smith

Author Zadie Smith talks about dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences.

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Schiller's Mary Stuart, Gunter Grass, Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves

Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from Gunter Grass.

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The Weird, Science and Art at Fact, Japanese Film Your Name

Rana Mitter on science and art on show at Liverpool's Fact and what we mean by 'weird'.

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The Liberal Elite

Douglas Carswell, David Runciman, Eliane Glaser and Lynsey Hanley on elites.

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Rauschenberg - Performance, Identity and the Writings of Erving Goffman

Exploring identity through the lens of literature, art and everyday 21st-century life.

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Voices in Our Ears: Colin Grant, Josie Rourke, Charles Fernyhough, Clare Walker Gore

Matthew Sweet discusses epilepsy, Wilkie Collins and a theatre production of Joan of Arc.

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Maths: Alex Bellos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Serafina Cuomo, Vicky Neale

Discussing the maths gallery at the Science Museum and the need for better numeracy.

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Our Relationship with Animals

Shahidha Bari looks at computing for cats, de-extinction and an animal symphony.

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A Brexit reading list

Edith Hall, Chris Kissane and Matthew Sweet on what might be on a Brexit reading list.

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John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent

Philip Dodd and guests consider what we mean by 'news' in 2016.

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Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris

Anne McElvoy asks if public enquiries are good government. Plus Matthew Parris on scorn.

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