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Minds at War: Series 1

Non-Combatants and Others

Author Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Der Krieg

Cartoonist Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

Prof David Edgerton discusses the 1916 Memorandum on the Neglect of Science.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Michal Shapira explores Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Le Feu

Heather Jones on Henri Barbusse's Le Feu, the first explicit account of WWI conditions.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Battleship Potemkin

Ian Christie discusses Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin as a response to World War I.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

蜜芽传媒 correspondent Lyse Doucet discusses Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

The Broken Wing

Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

The Grieving Parents

Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest son, Peter

• 15 mins

Goodbye to All That

Elif Shafak

Turkish writer Elif Shafak reflects on a turning point in her native country's history.

• 15 mins

Goodbye to All That

Colm Toibin

Writer Colm Toibin reflects on Ireland's role in World War I.

• 15 mins

Goodbye to All That

Daniel Kehlmann

German writer Daniel Kehlmann reflects on recent German history.

• 15 mins

Goodbye to All That

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo reflects on the role of Chinese 'coolies' on the battlefields of World War I.

• 15 mins

Goodbye to All That

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson considers a recent turning point in British attitudes to the arts.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: Scots Abroad

AL Kennedy reflects on tartan, the kilt and a sense of Scottish identity.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: GSOH

AL Kennedy reflects on the idea of what is a good sense of humour.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: Morality and Misery

Writer and comedian AL Kennedy celebrates Scottish 'dourness'.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots

Writer and comedian AL Kennedy celebrates the language of Scotland.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities

AL Kennedy on what Scottishness means to her, discussing Scotland's many hidden identities

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Limestone

Sue Clifford, co-founder of Common Ground, reflects on England's limestone landscapes.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Sandstone

Walker and geologist Ronald Turnbull reflects on sandstone's place in our landscapes.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Granite

Sculptor Peter Randall-Page describes the obduracy of Dartmoor's granite boulders.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Slate

Welsh poet Gillian Clarke counts the human cost of quarrying Snowdonia's ubiquitous slate.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

A Body of Becketts

Actress Lisa Dwan describes the demands of performing in works by Samuel Beckett.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Beckett's Living Dead

Commentator Fintan O'Toole on themes of mortality and death in Samuel Beckett's work.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written

Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Lost in Translation

Director Netia Jones on the relationship between words and music in Samuel Beckett's work.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Beckett and the Wake

Photographer John Minihan on taking some of the best-known photographs of Samuel Beckett.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: The Actor's Life

Michael Goldfarb discusses the freedom, joy and absurdity of the actor's life.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Episode 2

Michael Goldfarb describes an encounter with writer Philip Roth in New York in the 1970s.

• 15 mins