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About Average

On the Average

Novelist and critic Ian Sansom focuses on why 'average' has become a byword for mediocrity

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About Average

Small, Medium and Large

Ian Sansom discusses the scientific measurement of the average man and woman's dimensions.

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About Average

Working 9 to 5

The changing concept of the average working week in an age of zero hours contracts.

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About Average

Mr Average

Novelist and critic Ian Sansom goes in search of the 'average' man or woman.

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Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes

Andrew Hussey

Cultural historian Andrew Hussey examines Roland Barthes's impact in Europe in the 1960s.

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Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes

Nick James

Writer Nick James assesses the impact Roland Barthes still has on the way we look at film.

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Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes

Penny Sparke

Design historian Penny Sparke charts the influence Barthes has had on her career.

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Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes

Andrew Gallix

Magazine editor Andrew Gallix reflects on what Barthes meant by 'the death of the author'.

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Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes

Michael Wood

Michael Wood tries to define Roland Barthes, who redefined himself throughout his career.

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Between the Essays

Listen

Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.

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Between the Essays

With Faint Dry Sound

Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.

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Between the Essays

Between the Essays: Like Steps of Passing Ghosts

Kaitlin Prest explores how we can remain haunted by past loves.

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Between the Essays

And Fall

Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.

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Cornerstones

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland

Poet John Burnside explores his fascination with the Sami landscapes of northern Norway.

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Cornerstones

Cornerstones - The Canadian Arctic

Travel writer Sara Wheeler recalls her time visiting Canada's Arctic region.

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Cornerstones

Cornerstones: Greenland Caves

Gina Moseley describes leading a team of cavers into an unknown cavern system in Greenland

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Cornerstones

Cornerstones: Siberia

Daniel Kalder conjures the vast landscapes east of the Urals, where taiga becomes tundra.

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Cornerstones

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Alaska

Jason Mark visits northern Alaska and reflects on the impact of our lust for hydrocarbons.

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Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Elizabeth Hay on Painting Place III by David Milne

Novelist Elizabeth Hay on David Milne's Painting Place III and Canada.

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Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Hallgrimur Helgason on Fish Processing in Eyjafjord by Kristin Jonsdottir

Hallgrimur Helgason on Kristin Jonsdottir's Fish Processing in Eyjafjord and Iceland.

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Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Mette Moestrup on Pia Arke's Camera Obscura

Mette Moestrup on Pia Arke's Camera Obscura and Denmark and Greenland.

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Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Ray Hudson on Touching Fire by Carolyn Reed

Ray Hudson on Carolyn Reed's Touching Fire and the US state of Alaska.

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Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Thomas Hylland Eriksen on the Holmenkollen Ski-Jumping Hill

Thomas Hylland Eriksen on Oslo's now-demolished Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill and Norway.

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Religion in the North

Winter Solstice: Hanne Orstavik

Novelist Hanne Orstavik on her childhood memories of Sami winter solstice legends.

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Religion in the North

Forests and Faith under the Northern Lights

Per Rosenberg on wooden churches in Scandinavia and the symbolic importance of the forest.

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Religion in the North

Norse Mythology: Karl Seigfried

Karl Seigfried explores Nordic Yule myths and why Norse mythology still speaks to people.

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Religion in the North

Christmas Father: Lars Petter Sveen

Lars Petter Sveen recalls growing up in an atheist family.

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Religion in the North

A Swedish Christmas: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown recalls his experience of a Swedish Christmas.

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Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"

Robert Worby reflects on the first performance of John Cage's 4'33".

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Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Sara Mohr-Pietsch on the appetite in the west for eastern European music after 1989.

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