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Churchill's Reputation
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies.
Pleasure
Matthew Sweet's guests share some secrets as they ask: Is pleasure ever simple or guilty?
Frantz Fanon
Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation
Syria: Hope and Poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst.
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Ten researchers look at colonial history, alphabets, punctuation, poetry, art terminology.
What do we learn from census stats?
John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records.
Edward Said's thinking
Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator
The Vietnam-Paris Connection
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet.
From Life on Mars to Dangerous Space Junk
Seb Falk talks to researchers about attitudes to Mars, seeing colour and Skylab's crash.
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI
Sadie Ryan, Lynda Clark and Allison Koenecke talk about their research with Matthew Sweet.
