Episodes to download
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New Thinking: Rubble Culture to Techno in Post-war Germany
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dance floors.
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New Thinking: Places of Poetry and The Colonial Countryside Project
Thu 3 Oct 2019
National Trust history is revamped in a writing project with children.
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New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability
Mon 16 Sep 2019
The Future Fashion Factory and changing our attitude to fast fashion.
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Proms Plus: Witches and Witchcraft
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters in discussion with Dr Fern Riddell.
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Proms Plus: Letters
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher discuss letter writing in the 21st century
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Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Mon 2 Sep 2019
Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.
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Proms Plus: Landscape
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Horatio Clare and Testament discuss landscape’s power to inspire writers
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Proms Plus: Nina Simone's Life and Legacy
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Nina Simone’s achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards.
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Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Seán Williams explores Beethoven’s 9th and Schiller’s accompanying text, An Ode to Joy.
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Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh
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Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes
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Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Historians Kathryn Hughes & Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment.
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Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary
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Proms Plus: Childhood, Innocence and Experience
Tue 13 Aug 2019
Books for children and children in books from Romanticism via the Victorians to now.
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Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Mon 12 Aug 2019
Shahidha Bari and Rolf Hind discuss Tchaikovsky’s letters, with readings from Tom Stuart
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Proms Plus: Tragedy
Thu 8 Aug 2019
Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace
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Proms Plus: Swans
Mon 5 Aug 2019
Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.
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Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Sun 4 Aug 2019
The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia
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Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.
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Proms Plus: Music and Health
Wed 24 Jul 2019
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice
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Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing
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New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
Wed 17 Jul 2019
From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs
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New Thinking: City Talk
Wed 17 Jul 2019
Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop
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Scented Gloves and Gossip: Civility and News in the Renaissance
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture.
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The Digital Humanities
Fri 21 Dec 2018
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
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Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
Thu 8 Nov 2018
Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?
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From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Reconstructing the thought-world of the middle ages
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Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Tue 16 Oct 2018
Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes
