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Women and Slavery
New research into female slave owners in Britain to women on Caribbean plantations.
Autism, Film and Patterns
From Rain Man to Atypical. Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life.
Aphra Behn
John Gallagher's guests decode changes in Behn's loyalties from her plays and dedications.
Dostoevsky
Rana Mitter reads from a new biography of Dostoevsky, 200 years after his birth.
Mildred Pierce
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James M Cain's classic novel and its film adaptation.
Marlene Dietrich
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich, from Europe to Hollywood.
Winter Light
From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars and Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Anne McElvoy listens out for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel
Ancient Wisdom and Remote Living
From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples and the resilience of island life
Hey Presto
From a history of Panto to magic tricks and what surgeons can learn from them.
