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Art and Refugees from Nazi Germany

Writing about the Holocaust and the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain.

• 44 mins

Sea Goings

Julia Blackburn, Katie Paterson, Charlotte Runcie, the Cutty Sark.

• 44 mins

Street Culture, Protests, Food

Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.

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Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk.

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Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds.

Quassim Cassam and Simon Beard with Matthew, plus RW Fassbinder's 1970s TV sci-fi series.

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Spike Lee

The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.

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Africa, Babel, China

Histories of West Africa, 20th-century China, and the art of translation.

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Love

The science and art of love. Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha

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Patti LuPone

The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian American roots.

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The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

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Images of Japan

Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.

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Jack the Ripper and women as victims

Hallie Rubenhold, Emma Jenkins, Dr Kate Lister and Ruth Ware join Matthew Sweet.

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Authority in the Era of Populism

Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid and Anne McElvoy.

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Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

Laurence Scott and Will Self talk about redundant features in design.

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David Bailey, Don McCullin

Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

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Women, relationships and the law past and present

Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay.

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Is British Culture Getting Weirder? Free Thinking at the Late Junction Festival

Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner and William Fowler.

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The Council Estate in Culture

With George Shaw, Kader Attia, Dreda Say Mitchell, Katie Beswick and Matthew Sweet.

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Partition, colonial power and the voices of 16th-century women

With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.

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Jhumpa Lahiri, Valeria Luiselli, George Szirtes

Two writers and a poet in conversation about language, migrants and personhood.

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Empathy

Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey and AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.

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Childhood faces and fears

A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney.

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Betrayal

Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal.

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Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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Feelings, and feelings, and feelings

Thomas Dixon, first director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.

• 59 mins

Crimes of Passion

David Wilson, Sophie Hannah and Michael Hughes with Matthew Sweet at Sage.

• 44 mins

Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.

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Being Diplomatic

Anne McElvoy talks to Gabrielle Rifkind, William J Burns and Gabriel Gatehouse.

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'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get.

Suffragism, black activism & Brexit. Shahidha Bari chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate.

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The Emotions of Now

What's the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK: Joy, anger, anxiety, schadenfreude or shame?

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