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
- 57 mins
- 26 Apr 2024
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Arts & Ideas
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present.
Episodes (1474 Available)
- New Thinking: Exploring the local
New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office
- 43 mins
- 26 Apr 2024
- Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari
- 57 mins
- 19 Apr 2024
- Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal
- 56 mins
- 12 Apr 2024
- Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today
- 56 mins
- 05 Apr 2024
- Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
- 14 mins
- 29 Mar 2024
- Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
- 44 mins
- 29 Mar 2024
- What does feminist art mean?
Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement
- 14 mins
- 28 Mar 2024
- New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
- 39 mins
- 28 Mar 2024
- Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
- 44 mins
- 27 Mar 2024
- New Thinking: East West artistic connections
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art
- 35 mins
- 27 Mar 2024
- Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.
- 13 mins
- 27 Mar 2024
- Writing Place
Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.
- 44 mins
- 27 Mar 2024
- Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future
- 14 mins
- 26 Mar 2024
- 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
- 39 mins
- 22 Mar 2024
- The Legacy of the Laundries
Louise Brangan reflects on the uncovering of the secret lives lived in Irish laundries
- 14 mins
- 22 Mar 2024
- Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies
- 14 mins
- 22 Mar 2024
- Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip
- 13 mins
- 21 Mar 2024
- From algorithms to oceans
Kerry McInerney explores the promise of the ‘sustainable AI’ movement and how AI develops
- 14 mins
- 21 Mar 2024
- Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Cooper on the school teacher who tried to ignite a feminist revolution in Germany
- 14 mins
- 20 Mar 2024