New Thinking: India in the archives
Whether it’s Jane Eyre transported to India, childrens masks used for political protests or film posters that trigger memories, there are endless fascinating stories nestled amongst archives that rese...
6 Juli 202230min
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
Varney the Vampire was a blood soaked gothic horror story serialised in cheap print over the course of a couple of years in the nineteenth century. The resulting "penny dreadful" tale spilled out of a...
30 Juni 202245min
David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
David Chalmers is credited with setting the terms for much of the work done in the philosophy of mind today when he posed the 'hard problem' of consciousness: how does matter, which is fundamentally i...
29 Juni 202245min
Belief, Habit & Religion
For evolutionary scientists studying religion, it's more fruitful to examine what people do in religious contexts, rather than listen to what they say they believe. There's a new recognition that as w...
28 Juni 202244min
Late works
Geoff Dyer, Dame Sheila Hancock and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians near the end of their careers.Old Rage by Sheila Han...
23 Juni 202245min
ETA Hoffmann
The German Romantic author of horror and fantasy published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the ballet Coppélia and the Nutcracker. In the theatre he wo...
22 Juni 202245min
New Thinking: Waiting
Waiting is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s in the waiting room of a GP surgery or waiting for lockdown to end.As part of the Waiting Times project, Dr Michael Flexer, a publicly engaged resea...
22 Juni 202236min
Sheffield reinvented
John Gallagher with an exploration of Sheffield's cultural history through new words, music and film.
21 Juni 202245min
