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Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

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The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate

Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.

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Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall

Landscape in motion plus how mountain climbing inspired a physicist and photographers.

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Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel V谩squez and Javier Cercas

Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.

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American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths

Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman, and the careers picked by psychopaths.

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The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.

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Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university.

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The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president

Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.

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Mark Lilla, Owen Hatherley, Gulzaar Barn

Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs a rethink and Gulzaar Barn on medical trials

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Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

Philip Dodd on the intellectual dark web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray and Ed Husain.

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The Piano and Love

Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.

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The Word For World Is Forest

Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel and discusses the Paul Foot Award.

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Windrush, Forests in Art, South African Jazz

Colin Grant, Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari

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Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas

The man who loved our trees and woods and his ideas about what they might become.

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The Working Lunch and Food in History

How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.

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The body, past and present

Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.

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Olivia Laing, Fun Home

Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA.

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What do you call a stranger? - The Caine Prize - NHS ideals.

Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.

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Renzo Piano

The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard

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From 18th-century automata to superheroes and digital living

Matthew Sweet visits the Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.

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Philosophical tennis, Hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx

Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighbourhood.

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Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding, Stella Tillyard

Anne McElvoy with sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard

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Howard Jacobson

Writer Howard Jacobson delivers a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.

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Design

Including a report from the London Design Biennale and film historian Peter Biskind.

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Women Finding a Voice.

Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, Natalie Haynes, Michele Roberts

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Sebastian Faulks

The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel, Paris Echo.

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What St Augustine teaches us

Anne McEvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace.

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What Camus and Claude Levi-Strauss teach us

Rana Mitter talks to Ben Okri about Camus and debates the 'untamed mind' of Levi-Strauss.

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What Nietzsche teaches us

Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today

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The Goodies

Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show.

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