Women, relationships and the law past and present
Lying about a sexual attack, resisting parental pressures to marry, using the law to fight for inheritance and divorce. Shahidha Bari talks to the fiction writers Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Layla AlAmma...
7 Mars 201945min
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
How self-revealing and frank should a writer be? Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn and Xiaolu Guo join Matthew Sweet to look at the life of Doris Lessing and her 1962 novel in which she exp...
6 Mars 201945min
David Bailey, Don McCullin
The photographers, David Bailey and Don McCullin, came to prominence in the 1960s but their pictures did more than define a decade. Don McCullin's work in Vietnam, Biafra, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and...
5 Mars 201949min
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
Shahidha Bari talks to Fatimah Asghar about poetry and the Emmy nominated web series Brown Girls. We have a look at the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver – court painters to Queen Eliza...
4 Mars 201944min
Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Laurence Scott, Will Self and New Generation Thinkers Lisa Mullen and Danielle Thom look at redundant features in design plus a visit to Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design, pr...
28 Feb 201944min
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the previously untold stories of the five women killed by the Ripper and challenges the myths that have grown up around the Whitechapel Murders of 1888.
26 Feb 201945min
Images of Japan
Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.
21 Feb 201944min
Authority in the Era of Populism
What is required of a good leader in an age of disruption? Jamie Bartlett, Professor Mary Kaldor, Dame Louise Casey, Dame Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid debate at the London School of Economics. Anne M...
21 Feb 20191h 13min
