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    New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers

    Alexandra Reza's Essay considers the Gilet Noirs, Ousmane Semb猫ne, and Nathalie Quintane

  2. New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop

    Darragh McGee considers the history of gambling from 18th century card games to apps

  3. New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds

    Seren Griffiths tells the story of the soldier turned archaeologist Francis Buckley.

  4. New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians

    Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander "the Great".

  5. New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

    Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Ciss茅

  6. New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup

    Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.

  7. New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale

    Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals

  8. New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentary

    Rana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to...

  9. New Generation Thinkers 2022

    Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio

  10. New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

    Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell, Tom Smith

  11. Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

    蜜芽传媒 Head of News James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

  12. Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

    Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & anthropology pioneers

  13. Nature Memoirs

    Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley

  14. Nationalisms: Jerry Brotton, Elif Shafak, John Breuilly

    Jerry Brotton talks to Rana Mitter about Elizabethan England and the Islamic World.

  15. Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

    Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV

  16. Narnia and CS Lewis

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

  17. Napoleon the gardener and art thief

    Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter

  18. Napoleon in Fact & Fiction

    Napoleon impersonators, ballads and what if he didn't die in exile?

  19. Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas

    The work of Turner Prize nominees, a Tiger Bay murder story, Under Milk Wood on stage

  20. Myths, ships and history

    Anna McKay, Lloyd Belton and Oliver Finnegan delve in the deep for seafaring histories

  21. Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill

    Monsters and myths in the art of Gerald Scarfe and Kiki Smith + Caryl Churchill's plays.

  22. My Neighbour Totoro

    Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

  23. My Neighbour Totoro

    Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film

  24. Muses and women's creativity

    From Pre-Raphaelite models to the daughter of Maud Gonne: Naomi Paxton with new research

  25. Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English

    In the 200th year of Mrs Gaskell's birth, Jenny Uglow and Katheryn Hughes discuss her...

  26. Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science

    Rachel Hewitt has been researching the pioneering Irish climber Mrs Aubrey Le Blond.

  27. Mould-Breaking Writing

    Max Porter, Chloe Aridjis, Will Harris and Xine Yao on writing the breaks the mould

  28. Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

    Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

  29. Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

    Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz & Lucy Bolton join Matthew Sweet to look at this 1966 film.

  30. Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of Iran

    Molly Dineen discusses her first collection of documentaries on DVD. Brian Christian...

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