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Appeasement
How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?
Gloves
From python skin to Nintendo gaming, PPE to vegan materials: how gloves are evolving.
Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
The French film star who burst onto the scene in 1960 in Godard's Breathless.
Colm Tóibín, David Cohen winner, Dullness
Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull.
Early Buddhism, Sheila Rowbotham
Two Buddhism scholars and British socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham join Rana Mitter.
Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
Matthew Sweet and guests look at 1921's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and witches now.
The TV Debate
Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr, Germaine Greer v Norman Mailer. Have debates changed?
The Day of the Triffids
Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel from 1951.
Caribbean Art
As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post-war writing and art
Dürer, Rhinos and Whales
Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.
