The EssayNew Generation Thinkers 2024Episodes Episode guide

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1. Digging for Words

   Jade Cuttle explores new words in nature writing
2. Workplace performance

   Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal looks at “service with a smile”
3. The crime of creation

   Jack Symes considers how we value life and face death
4. Mothers on trial

   Shona Minson explores the pardoxical thinking around sending mothers to prison
5. Land Cinema

   Becca Voelcker describes experiments in filmmaking in China, Japan and the Philippines
6. The intimacy of radio

   Jacob Downs considers what it means to listen closely to the radio.
7. Birth Stories

   From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.
8. Losing Yourself in Books

   Janine Bradbury questions our motivation when choosing what to read.
9. A Philosophical Forgery?

   Jonathan Egid tells the story of a mysterious Ethiopian thinker named Zera Yacob.
10. Technicolor Wars

    Kirsty Sinclair Dootson on the dark side of colour film.