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New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties

What Birmingham can learn from Scotland + commonwealth commercial connections in the past

• 26 mins

Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama

• 45 mins

Touki Bouki

The Journey of the Hyena mixes West African oral tradition with New Wave and Soviet style

• 45 mins

1922: Reader's Digest

The "agreggator" of trending stories of its day - how a magazine revolutionised reading.

• 14 mins

Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau

• 14 mins

1922: Wimbledon

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the All England Club's move to a new home.

• 14 mins

Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf

The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing

• 14 mins

Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

The Scottish writers whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th century conventions

• 13 mins

Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor of the civil war.

• 14 mins

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

Tom Smith's essay on early pioneers of Berlin's music scene and arguments about whiteness

• 14 mins

Digging Deep

Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking

• 14 mins

Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care

Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the UK

• 13 mins

Tudor Virtual Reality

The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgment of Solomon

• 13 mins

Not Quite Jean Muir

How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills?

• 14 mins

1922: Food

John Gallagher explores eating fads in the 1920s with Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson

• 14 mins

1922: Leisure and the body

From surfing to weight lifting, 20s style

• 14 mins

1922: Nanook of the North

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough looks at this ground-breaking documentary about Arctic life.

• 14 mins

1922: Allotments

John Gallagher investigates the Allotments Act of 1922

• 14 mins

Prison Break

New Generation Thinker Jeffery Howard asks if it is ever ok to escape from prison

• 14 mins

Dam Fever and the Diaspora

How do large dam projects gain widespread support despite past examples asks Majed Akhter

• 14 mins

Facing Facts

From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces

• 12 mins

Pogroms and Prejudice

Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism from Russian history to the present day

• 14 mins

Egyptian Satire

Dina Rezk explores the power of humour and protest

• 12 mins

1922: The Lincoln Memorial

Why was Lincoln the president the nation chose to commemorate in 1922?

• 17 mins

1922: The Hollywood Bowl

From a season of starlit concerts in 1922 to the USA鈥檚 principal outdoor concert venue

• 20 mins

New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?

John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th century age of exploration

• 45 mins

The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.

• 45 mins

Immortality

Matthew Sweet & guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature, film and myth

• 44 mins

Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

The Normans

Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today

• 44 mins