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    New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

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

  2. New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets

    A computer game for cystic fibrosis patients to improve breathing

  3. New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk

    Seb Falk talks to researchers about our attitude to Mars,seeing colour and Skylab's crash

  4. New Thinking: Food

    Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality

  5. New Thinking: Flooding and Energy

    Can old field names and labelling energy sources help us cope better with climate change?

  6. New Thinking: First Encounters

    Why we need to rethink the stories we tell of Columbus, Pocahontas & the English in India

  7. New Thinking: Films and Research

    Films investigating melting glaciers, to refugee camps, public bathrooms, & more.

  8. New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day

    From outfits which double as tents to material and algae: Lucy Orta and Monica Buchan-Ng

  9. New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability

    The Future Fashion Factory and changing our attitude to #fastfashion. Plus AI and colours

  10. New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums

    Shahidha Bari & V&A fashion curator Claire Wilcox on costumes, couture, and wardrobes

  11. New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

    Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

  12. New Thinking: Exploring the local

    New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office

  13. New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people

    Islam Issa hears how Adrian Lester and Ewan Fernie are taking Shakespeare to the people

  14. New Thinking: Eco-Criticism

    Exploring the points where literature and ecological thinking meet

  15. New Thinking: East West artistic connections

    A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art

  16. New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

    Digging into the music of composers Joseph Bologne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry.

  17. New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

    Digging into the music of composers Joseph Boulogne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry

  18. New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre

    Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles

  19. New Thinking: Design and health

    From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition

  20. New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture

    A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.

  21. New Thinking: Dead Languages

    John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of Ancient Pompeii

  22. New Thinking: City Talk

    Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop

  23. New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping

    Dr William Butler and Jenny Bunn from the National Archives discuss record keeping.

  24. New Thinking: Children and health

    What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?

  25. New Thinking: Carols and Convents

    English Nuns abroad, and are carols just for Christmas?

  26. New Thinking: British Sign Language

    Kate Rowley and Gerardo Ortega talk about new research into British Sign Language

  27. New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022

    Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker

  28. New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star

    From a Black Juliet in the 18th century to Ira Aldridge’s daughter Amanda + Rita Montaner

  29. New Thinking: Black British Theatre

    From a Black Juliet in the 18th century to Ira Aldridge’s daughter Amanda.

  30. New Thinking: Beowulf

    Short: How studying grammar and computer games can explain Old English poetry

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