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Scottish Kingship
Medieval myth-making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny
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Weird Viking Bodies
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The Legacy of the Laundries
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New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water
Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future
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Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
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New Thinking: East West artistic connections
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art
Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
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Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
What does feminist art mean?
Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement
Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
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Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today
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Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari
New Thinking: Exploring the local
New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office
Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
Girl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason
Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife
Winning and losing with Lea Ypi, Peter Hitchens, Michael Mansfield KC and Cath Bishop.
Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest
Matthew Sweet with David Willetts, Elizabeth Oldfield, Will Davies, Tiffany Watt Smith
New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
Introducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme
Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.
Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy