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Harry Belafonte's career
The long career of the American singer, film star & activist with Matthew Sweet & guests.

Margaret Cavendish
Nandini Das and guests discuss the Duchess of Newcastle - philosopher, poet and scientist.

The Life of Objects
Timothy Morton, Steve Connor, Caroline Edwards and Rachele Dini talk to Lisa Mullen.

JG Ballard's Crash
Iain Sinclair, Mark Blacklock, Muriel Zagha and Jo Stanley join Matthew Sweet.

Narnia and CS Lewis
Exploring the literary and theological terrain of C.S. Lewis's Narnia

Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
Jago Cooper, Barbara Paca, Jim Scown and Camilla Allen talk trees, soil, art and advocacy.

Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Lea Ypi and Roger Luckhurst join Matthew Sweet to look at novels, dreams and bureaucracy.

Libraries
From Alexandria to mid-Wales, Laurence Scott and guests look at library history.

Lorca
As the National Theatre stages The House of Bernarda Alba, Rana Mitter discusses Lorca

Postwar Germany
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of World War II.