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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    New Thinking: Science Fiction

    Hetta Howes, Caroline Edwards & Amy Butt ask is science fiction the new realism?

  2. New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany

    Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dancefloors

  3. New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time

    Producer Kat Feavers & house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen on preparing the TV show

  4. New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021

    Prize winning films about migration, autism, Colombians, farming and children born of war

  5. New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives

    Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles

  6. New Thinking: Refugees

    What are the best shelters? the right language? what do we learn from self help in camps?

  7. New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture

    Kathleen Collins’ film scripts and women sculptors working in wax

  8. New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld

    Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger & early 1900s queer life writing

  9. New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage

    From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives

  10. New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles

    What happens when one becomes two?

  11. New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going

    What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?

  12. New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project

    Incl a Welsh castle w/ more Mughal Art than India's National Museum - a new UK poem map

  13. New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS

    New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing

  14. New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

    A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,

  15. New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

    A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,

  16. New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness

    Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity

  17. New Thinking: Mental Health Research

    How can young people regulate their emotions and can gaming help adolescent mental health

  18. New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration

    From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.

  19. New Thinking: Light and Darkness

    Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature

  20. New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us

    From Lancashire dialect protest poetry to Hardy's Dorset vowels. John Gallagher hosts.

  21. New Thinking: Language Loss and revival

    John Gallagher is joined by Gwenno, who writes and sings in Cornish, and others

  22. New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution

    John Gallagher discusses the Industrial Revolution with Emma Griffin and William Ashworth

  23. New Thinking: India in the archives

    Dr Naomi Paxton explores archives for stories of Indian culture and history.

  24. New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment

    From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water

  25. New Thinking: How and why we talk

    John Gallagher hears about tongue shapes, accent prejudice and the importance of gossip

  26. New Thinking: Hey Presto!

    Magic in medicine, surgery & business; panto cross-dressing; and panto & magic history

  27. New Thinking: health inequalities

    Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues

  28. New Thinking: Girls

    New research into ideas about girlhood and growing up - in film, fiction, art and society

  29. New Thinking: George Eliot

    Writer of the English provinces?

  30. New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

    Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv and history

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