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    New Thinking: Being Human 2021

    Research into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.

  2. New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data

    Lisa Mullen explores the way data can change our view of history & looks at conservation.

  3. New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties

    What Birmingham can learn from Scotland + commonwealth commercial connections in the past

  4. New Thinking: Aphra Behn

    John Gallagher's guests decode changes in Behn's loyalties from her plays and dedications

  5. New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines

    Kerry McInerney, Eleanor Drage and Kendra Briken share their research with Laurence Scott

  6. New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019

    Hetta Howes talks to winners of this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards

  7. New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois

    Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history

  8. New Thinking: Accents

    From variations of Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice

  9. New Thinking: About Face

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

  10. New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers

    Introducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme

  11. New Thinking: Net Zero Design

    How can local communities play a role in cutting carbon emissions?

  12. New Thinking about Museums

    From VR Vikings & military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections

  13. New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.

    With Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Shahida Rahman, Fern Riddell and Miranda Garrett

  14. New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield

    Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of the poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.

  15. New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art

    Vid Simoniti considers eco-art, from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng

  16. New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

    Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back

  17. New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire

    Christienna Fryar looks at Caribbean fires and earthquakes and lessons for rebuilding now

  18. New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown

    Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about C16th English settlers in America

  19. New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?

    Diarmuid Hester muses on the thin line between inspiration and a compulsive disorder.

  20. New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet

    Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet

  21. New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers

    Alexandra Reza's Essay considers the Gilet Noirs, Ousmane Sembène, and Nathalie Quintane

  22. New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop

    Darragh McGee considers the history of gambling from 18th century card games to apps

  23. New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds

    Seren Griffiths tells the story of the soldier turned archaeologist Francis Buckley.

  24. New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians

    Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander "the Great".

  25. New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

    Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé

  26. New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup

    Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.

  27. New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale

    Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals

  28. New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentary

    Rana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to...

  29. New Generation Thinkers 2022

    Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio

  30. New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

    Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell, Tom Smith

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