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Existential Risk
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests

Whale watching
Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.

Whale-watching
Philip Hoare, Rachel Murray, Peter Riley and Edward Sugden explore marine life.

Diverse Classical Music II
Christienna Fryar speaks to four researchers whose work is expanding the musical canon

Futurism
Matthew Sweet explores into the movement that celebrated technology, vitality, violence

Modernism Around The World
The Bauhaus in Deli, Japanese and South African novels, and poetry and art in Mexico

Paper
From the Chinese Han Dynasty in 105 AD to the 20th-century workplace, art and rubbish.

How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece
Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin LeGendre & Owen Hatherley build up a Manifesto

Asta Nielsen
Matthew Sweet on the life of Danish film star Asta Nielsen, one of cinema's first icons.

Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research