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  1. Night Waves

    We ask does the West really understand India? Director Peter Kosminsky discusses his...

  2. Niall Ferguson, Joanna Hogg & Tom Hiddleston

    Niall Ferguson talks about his new series, Civilisation and the importance of 'killer...

  3. New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems

    Sandeep Parmar talks to poets Kayo Chingonyi, Paisley Rekdal and Nasser Hussain

  4. New Thinking:Nature Writing

    From Gilbert White to lockdown blogs - why we need to spend more time in nature.

  5. New Thinking: Writing the NHS

    Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing

  6. New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness

    The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan/a novel about a Lebanese boy wanting to be an astronaut

  7. New Thinking: Work and protest

    From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911

  8. New Thinking: Wordsworth

    Professors Sally Bushell & Simon Bainbridge talk to New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson

  9. New Thinking: Women’s history

    The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

  10. New Thinking: Women’s history

    The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

  11. New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality

    Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan and Sarah Ellis are pushing the VR envelope

  12. New Thinking: Women and Slavery

    Research on women owners, women on plantations, and the daughter of a slave trader

  13. New Thinking: women and football

    Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football

  14. New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?

    John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th century age of exploration

  15. New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?

    John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records

  16. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  17. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  18. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  19. New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health

    Research from the winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020

  20. New Thinking: Waiting

    What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?

  21. New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities

    Hidden LGBTQ+ histories in Northern Ireland and queer cinema in contemporary China

  22. New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History

    Eleanor Barraclough explores the significance of the much mythologised Pilgrim voyage.

  23. New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual

    John Gallagher looks at creating in multiple tongues and the slipperiness of metaphor

  24. New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project

    From digging for bones to the connection between bear baiting and Elizabethan theatre

  25. New Thinking: The Botanical Past

    From still life paintings to Kew Gardens, a new history of horticulture is being written

  26. New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories

    A look at changing attitudes about sportswomen, once dubbed unfeminine, & LGBT athletes

  27. New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery

    Naomi Paxton looks at new research into the effectiveness of the UK Act passed in 2015

  28. New Thinking: Stitching Stories

    Shahidha Bari visits a textile art show + research on embroidery, stage outfits, vintage

  29. New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons

    Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray, and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas

  30. New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language

    From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs

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