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The well-groomed Georgian

Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth

• 21 mins

Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir

Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised 19th c Redcoat

• 19 mins

Landmark: Finnegans Wake

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James Joyce's experimental novel.

• 50 mins

Comrades in Arms

Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality

• 21 mins

Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali

Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.

• 45 mins

'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The history of the three-piece suit

Sarah Goldsmith on an immortal trio jacket, waistcoat and trousers

• 20 mins

James Ellroy

Philip Dodd is in conversation with the American author James Ellroy

• 45 mins

The Hard Man in the Call-Centre

Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys

• 19 mins

Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak

Two campaigning women talk to Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming

The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared

• 45 mins

Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.

Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction

• 46 mins

Free Thinking: Language and Belonging

Preti Taneja with Guy Gunaratne,Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri & Deena Mohamed

• 45 mins

Russia and Fear.

Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past & present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze.

• 44 mins

Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.

Philip Dodd visits the US rust belt city of Cleveland.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good

Matthew Sweet discusses Iris Murdoch's philosophical essay of 1970

• 44 mins

Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.

Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.

• 45 mins

An insider's view of war

Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents

• 58 mins

Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism

• 45 mins

New Thinking: City Talk

Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop

• 39 mins

New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles

What happens when one becomes two?

• 48 mins

New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language

From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,

• 40 mins

New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell, Tom Smith

• 45 mins

Book Parts and Difficulty

Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

• 46 mins

Proms Plus: Moon Landing

Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing

• 37 mins

Proms Plus: Music and Health

Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice

• 34 mins

Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer

Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.

• 32 mins

Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark

The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia

• 25 mins

Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking

The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about BlacKkKlansman & his 2000 film Bamboozled

• 45 mins

Proms Plus: Swans

Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.

• 21 mins