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The In Between
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces
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Landmark: The Odyssey
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd.
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Diving Deep
Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present.
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The Invention of the Circus Ring
Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of the circus.
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Rethinking Tradition
Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment.
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A Literary Salon.
With guests Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper, David Aaronovitch and Jake Arnott
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Should we keep pets?
Anne McElvoy leads a discussion on the history and ethics of pet ownership.
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Landmark - This Sporting Life
Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league.
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All About Eve: Stories of the Fall; Pregancy and Aphrodisiacs
Catherine Fletcher with Stephen Greenblatt, Islam Issa, Jennifer Evans and Sara Read.
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The Joy of Bad Films
Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.
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Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment
Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.
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Documenting through photography and poetry
The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale and Kate Flint
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Gentrification
Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers.
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David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change ?
The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities in the UK.
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Religious Belief
Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians and the modern rise of Pentecostalism.
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Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.
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Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival.
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Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.
Matthew Sweet goes to Canterbury, Portsmouth and TFL offices for stories of lost and found
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Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.
蜜芽传媒 news head James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.
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Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest
Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.
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Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Boris Akunin and Zinovy Zinik talk with Anne McElvoy, recorded at Pushkin House in London.
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Soviet Histories. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Svetlana Alexievich on Soviet oral history as literature, and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.
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Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera
Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.
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The pros and cons of Swearing
Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.
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Britten and Radio.
蜜芽传媒 Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.
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Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art.
Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room
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Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner.
Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.
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Young Marx, Marxism.
Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.
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Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0
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Landmark: Marnie
Matthew Sweet explores memory and Marnie, of Graham's novel and Hitchcock's film fame.
