Belonging, Home, Borders & National Identity
Discussions/interviews: Slavoj Žižek, Xinran, Ivan Klíma, Claudia Rankine, Pankaj Mishra All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Syria: Hope and Poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst.
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What do we learn from census stats?
John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records.
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Edward Said's thinking
Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator
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The Vietnam-Paris Connection
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet.
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Class and Social Mobility
Selina Todd, David Goodhart, Timandra Harkness and Sadie Ryan talk with Matthew Sweet.
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Yiddish and Rotwelsch Languages, Nazi France
Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about languages, codes and secrecy.
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Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Renée Vivien and Violette Leduc
Fiona Sampson, Peggy Reynolds and Anne McElvoy talk poetry and writing personal stories
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Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish prime minister 1950-60 died in an execution.
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Pakistan Politics, Water Supplies
Samira Shackle, Ejaz Haider and Majed Akhter talk about Karachi, power, crime and energy.
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Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong and the USA. Are confrontational politics here to stay?
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Family Ties and Reshaping History
From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of weird people, three authors look at kin.
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The Mayflower and Native American history
Sarah Churchwell, Kathryn Napier Gray and Lauren Working with Eleanor Barraclough.
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Tackling Modern Slavery
Naomi Paxton looks at new research into the effectiveness of the UK act passed in 2015.
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Modern Dutch Writing
Laurence Scott looks at the way Dutch writers are addressing history and contemporary life
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East Meets West
Historian Tom Holland, critic Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, and artist Inci Eviner.
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Dictators
Matthew Sweet and guests on Chaplin's 1941 film, The Great Dictator, and rising populism.
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Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, and Cindy Yu.
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Mocking power past and present
The German joker Tyll Ulenspiegel. Anne McElvoy, Daniel Kehlmann and Karen Leeder discuss.
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Japan Now 2020
Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, Yukiko Motoya and Motoyuki Shibata
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Belonging
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards.
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From the Spains to Latinx, including Iain Sinclair's Peruvian Journey
Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.
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Russia and Fear.
Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past and present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze
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Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
Matthew Sweet talks to two campaigning women: a writer from Turkey and an animal expert.
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Afropean identities, Filming the Arab spring
Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.
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