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New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?
Diarmuid Hester muses on the thin line between inspiration and a compulsive disorder.

Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup
Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.

New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray, and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas

The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a old dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea

Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
Shahida Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.

New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
Christienna Fryar looks at Caribbean fires and earthquakes and lessons for rebuilding now

The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
Matthew Sweet with Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and John Cook

Jacques Tati's Trafic
Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.

Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 that uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma