New Thinking: Children and health
What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school? Can children express their experiences through drawing, and how might a simple curtain help create happy family hom...
3 Jul 202334min
New Thinking: health inequalities
From exercise on prescription to museum visits and debt advice. Christienna Fryar hears about social prescribing projects which are trying to link up the arts with other services to improve people’s h...
2 Jul 202329min
New Thinking: Design and health
How a new material helps stroke patients recover and how mapping where infections and contamination happen helps staff training.New Generation Thinker Elsa Richardson hears from two leading designers ...
1 Jul 202332min
New Thinking: Writing the NHS
In the first NHS hospital to be opened in 1948 by then Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, a prize winning poet and academic has been sitting in the restaurant which serves as the canteen, persuading ho...
30 Jun 202337min
Dystopian thinking
Dystopias are a longstanding staple of film and literature, particularly science fiction, but what can we learn from them? Do they simply entrench despair or act as a prompt to improve the world? And ...
30 Jun 202345min
Julian the Apostate
Ibsen referred to Emperor and Galilean as his "major work". The play describes the life of Julian, who ruled the Roman empire from AD361-363. Julian attempted to abolish the recently established state...
28 Jun 202345min
Boyhood to manhood
The Second World War obsessed Luke Turner when he was growing up, before he founded the music website Quietus. Music has also been former teacher and now Add to Playlist host Jeffrey Boakye's passion ...
26 Jun 202344min
Gut instinct
The Skeptic Editor Michael Marshall talks to Matthew Sweet about how we judge actions and truth. They're joined by New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richardson, who is a historian of the emotions at the Un...
23 Jun 202345min
