Shakespeare as inspiration
Matthew Sweet is joined by Professor Preti Taneja – author of a novel We That Are Young which sets the King Lear in Delhi, by Dr Iain Robert Smith who studies films from around the world, and by Andre...
8 Nov 202344min
New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
Goldilocks, Robin Hood, Little Bess of Bromley, Moll Frith were star performers on the bear baiting circuit in Elizabethan England. New evidence of bear bones uncovered in archaeological digs and ove...
8 Nov 202331min
New Thinking: How and why we talk
Ultrasound tests in Burnley market hall will help the phonetics lab at Lancaster University explore tongue positions and accents as part of this year's Being Human Festival. Claire Nance joins John Ga...
8 Nov 202344min
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
From Iraq and Afghanistan and news headlines today back to earlier battles in the Spanish Civil War and World War Two, the relationship between war, photography and the press has affected attitudes to...
7 Nov 202344min
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
From Lyons’ Corner House opera performances in the 1920s to 1980s productions staged in fish and chip shops in Scotland – Alexandra Wilson has been studying the history of opera going and presents us ...
6 Nov 202337min
New Thinking: Food
Lady Fanshawe’s ‘Receipt Book’ (c.1651-1707) provides the inspiration for a public cooking event at Tamworth castle hosted by the academic Sara Read which includes preserving vegetables and a look at ...
5 Nov 202344min
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
Around 3 million Bengali Pakistanis now live in Pakistan it is estimated and a research project has been exploring their experiences, mixing oral testimony and art projects with analysis of recent his...
2 Nov 202331min
African identity via China and photography
Writers Teju Cole and Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.The exhibition A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern has a mission statement - to co...
2 Nov 202345min
