Arts & Ideas

Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present.

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New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
Introducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme
16 May 2024,44 mins
New Thinking: Exploring the local
New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office
26 Apr 2024,43 mins
New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
28 Mar 2024,39 mins
New Thinking: East West artistic connections
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art
27 Mar 2024,35 mins
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
22 Mar 2024,39 mins
New Thinking: Carols and Convents
English Nuns abroad, and are carols just for Christmas?
20 Dec 2023,27 mins
New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles
01 Dec 2023,39 mins
New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture
Kathleen Collins’ film scripts and women sculptors working in wax
17 Nov 2023,40 mins
New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
From digging for bones to the connection between bear baiting and Elizabethan theatre
08 Nov 2023,31 mins
New Thinking: How and why we talk
John Gallagher hears about tongue shapes, accent prejudice and the importance of gossip
08 Nov 2023,44 mins
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?
06 Nov 2023,37 mins
New Thinking: Food
Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality
05 Nov 2023,44 mins
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan/a novel about a Lebanese boy wanting to be an astronaut
02 Nov 2023,31 mins
New Thinking: Work and protest
From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911
13 Oct 2023,35 mins
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity
09 Oct 2023,29 mins
Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing
04 Sep 2023,23 mins
Writing and Place: Cornwall
Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey
27 Aug 2023,20 mins
Writing and Place: Wales
Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing
30 Jul 2023,21 mins
Writing and Place: The North-East
Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan
22 Jul 2023,20 mins
Writing and Place: Northern Ireland
Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari
17 Jul 2023,23 mins
New Thinking: women and football
Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football
06 Jul 2023,34 mins
New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS
New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing
04 Jul 2023,29 mins
New Thinking: Children and health
What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?
03 Jul 2023,34 mins
New Thinking: health inequalities
Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues
02 Jul 2023,29 mins
New Thinking: Design and health
From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition
01 Jul 2023,32 mins
New Thinking: Writing the NHS
Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing
30 Jun 2023,37 mins
New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day
From outfits which double as tents to material and algae: Lucy Orta and Monica Buchan-Ng
20 Apr 2023,27 mins
New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger & early 1900s queer life writing
05 Apr 2023,42 mins
New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines
Kerry McInerney, Eleanor Drage and Kendra Briken share their research with Laurence Scott
23 Mar 2023,47 mins
New Thinking: British Sign Language
Kate Rowley and Gerardo Ortega talk about new research into British Sign Language
13 Mar 2023,43 mins