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A feminist take on medieval history
How does Chaucer write on rape and consent? What links Kim Kardashian and Margery Kempe?
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
New takes on Chaucer, the Bible and African trading from 3 of the historians shortlisted.
Big State and the Industrial Revolution
Emma Griffin and William Ashworth share new research on Victorian industry.
WWII radio propaganda and French relations
From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.
Neolithic Revelations
A lack of dental floss in the Neolithic era proves to be a boon for archaeologists.
Cary Grant
Matthew Sweet and guests imagine an evening in the film star's company.
Shakespeare for the People
Adrian Lester and Prof Ewan Fernie talk to Islam Issa about Birmingham's first folio.
Alternative Realities
Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life-changing experiences and the fourth dimension.
Science Fiction and ecological thinking
Hetta Howes, Amy Butt and Caroline Edwards ask if science fiction is the new realism.
What's so great about EM Forster
Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about novelist EM Forster's work.
