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    How anthropology helps us understand the world

    Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

  2. How anthropology helps us understand the world

    Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

  3. Housework

    Gender, class & domestic tasks-Matthew Sweet pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in

  4. Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

    Matthew Sweet looks at the experiences of Portuguese Jewish and Roma communities.

  5. Holocaust history

    Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) Anne McElvoy hears testimony and new research

  6. Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

    Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today

  7. Hobbes and New Leviathans

    John Gray on why re-reading Hobbes can help us understand contemporary politics

  8. Hitchhiking

    Matthew Sweet considers examples from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to a system of Polish tokens

  9. Hitchhiking

    Matthew Sweet and guests consider hitchiking in culture and around the globe.

  10. History - the long and short of it

    Peter Frankopan, Alison Light, Bronwen Maddox & Zeinab Badawi join Matthew Sweet

  11. Hilma af Klint

    The spiritual paintings of the Swedish artist are discussed by Matthew Sweet and guests

  12. Higher Education for women and working class students

    Anne McElvoy hosts a conversation about higher education and the history of its expansion

  13. Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

    Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.

  14. Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

    Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.

  15. Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

    Anne McElvoy and sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard

  16. Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

    Sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld and Australian artist Dale Harding talk memory and moving on

  17. Heidegger & Antisemitism

    Matthew Sweet discusses the influential German philosopher's relationship with Nazism

  18. Hegel's Philosophy of Right

    Anne McElvoy listens for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel

  19. Healthy Eating Edwardian Style

    Elsa Richardson on the diet guru who set up a Covent Garden caf茅 and sold health products.

  20. Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?

    Julia Hobsbawm, Jamie Bartlett, Laurence Scott and Abeba Birhane with Anne McElvoy.

  21. Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

    Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson

  22. Harry Belafonte

    The long career of the American singer, film star & activist with Matthew Sweet & guests

  23. Harlots & 18th Century Working Women

    History & Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold & Moira Buffini on the C18th sex worker TV drama

  24. Hannah Arendt's exploration of Totalitarianism

    Why do Hannah Arendt's ideas continue to fire the imaginations of artists and thinkers?

  25. Halloween. Ghost Stories

    Haunting stories with Kirsty Logan, Jeremy Dyson & host Shahidha Bari

  26. Gwendolyn Brooks

    Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of the Pulitzer prize winning American poet 1917-2000

  27. Gut instinct

    From gut feelings in your stomach to the language of disgust: Matthew Sweet hosts

  28. Ground-breaking history books

    Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.

  29. Grief

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.

  30. Green Thinking: Weather

    What can we learn from how people responded to extreme weather events in the past?

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