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Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor

• 14 mins

Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

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

• 13 mins

Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.

• 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

Anne Enright + the value of gossip

Anne Enright discusses acting with Daisy Black, Emily Butterworth and Marie Le Conte.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality

Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan and Sarah Ellis are pushing the VR envelope

• 45 mins

Frank Ramsey

Shahidha Bari looks at the life and legacy of the 20th century polymath

• 62 mins

Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War Two refugees.

• 14 mins

Jewish Identity in 2020

Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Fighting Women

How women have fought on the frontline from antiquity to the present day

• 44 mins

Advertising & Artemisia

Considering how women have shaped art and advertising and new feminist writing in Korea.

• 44 mins

Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture

Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet

• 45 mins

Does Growth Matter?

Is the economic future all about growth? Danny Dorling discusses Slowdown.

• 47 mins

New Thinking: Science Fiction

Hetta Howes, Caroline Edwards & Amy Butt ask is science fiction the new realism?

• 48 mins

Shoes

From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos - Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade

• 44 mins

Contagion and Viruses

Matthew Sweet talks to John Dupré , Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen & Matt Adams

• 40 mins

Future Thinking

Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen, Riel Miller, Sarah Dillon & Rupert Read with Matthew Sweet

• 40 mins

What's so great about EM Forster

Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the English novelist's work.

• 58 mins

How do we build a new masculinity ?

Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare & Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

The Declaration Of Arbroath

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today

• 43 mins

New Thinking: Wordsworth

Professors Sally Bushell & Simon Bainbridge talk to New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson

• 43 mins

Knees

From dance to prayer, knees ups to kneeling

• 43 mins

Revisit: What does game playing teach us

From a Mesopotamian game to Scrabble, Shahidha Bari discusses competition and gaming.

• 42 mins

New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives

Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles

• 43 mins

Belonging

Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards

• 43 mins

Deep Time and the Earth

Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.

• 56 mins

Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf

Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books Shakespeare would have read.

• 43 mins

Alternative Realities

Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life changing experiences & the fourth dimension

• 44 mins

Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter at Hay

• 43 mins

Cary Grant

Matthew Sweet talks to Pamela Hutchinson, Charlotte Crofts & Mark Glancy.

• 44 mins