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Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real

New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv and history

New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history
Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv depicting history

St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Rana Mitter discusses three major theorists of religion and self-development

Going Underground
Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.

Experimental writing
Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton

New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker

New Thinking: Net Zero Design
How can local communities play a role in cutting carbon emissions?

Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Jane Smiley, Christopher Prendergast, Jayne Haynes, Marie Darrieussecq with Matthew Sweet

George Bernard Shaw
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950)