Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
At the height of summer, Matthew Sweet and guests turn their minds to tennis, beaches and walking. As Wimbledon continues, Benjamin Markovits and William Skidelsky consider the philosophy of tennis; N...
10 Jul 201845min
From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living
Playwright Charlotte Jones, author Laurence Scott, New Generation Thinkers Lisa Mullen and Iain Smith join Matthew Sweet.Charlotte Jones discusses her new play set in a Quaker community during the Nap...
6 Jul 201845min
Renzo Piano
The Italian architect and engineer, Renzo Piano, talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers) to the Shard in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in...
4 Jul 201844min
What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England and ideas about civility. Plus Shahidha Bari talks to Makena Onjerika the winner of the 2018 Caine Prize for Afri...
4 Jul 201844min
Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter
Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir 'Fun Home' on stage at the Young Vic in London reviewed by Jen Harvie from Queens Mary University of London, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker from Olivia Laing, Film his...
28 Jun 201845min
The body, past and present
Can beauty be an ethical ideal? What did being handsome mean in C18 England? How do we look at images by Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman or a Renaissance nude and is that affected by changing attit...
28 Jun 201844min
The Working Lunch and Food in History
Rana Mitter discusses food in history. James C Scott on the role of grain and coercion in the development of the first settled societies, and how the Victorians changed lunch, with New Generation Thin...
27 Jun 201844min
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights
170 years ago one woman launched the beginning of the modern women’s rights movement in America. New Generation Thinker Joanna Cohen of Queen Mary University of London looks back at her story and what...
22 Jun 201817min
