Culture Clash
Free Thinking explores divisions and differences and the way people define themselves in today’s world. Guests include Mark Lilla, Linda Yueh, Steven Pinker, Sonia Boyce, John Gray, Scrumbly Koldewyn, Leïla Slimani and Ash Sarkar.
Queer Histories
How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?
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Rocky Horror and camp
Shahidha Bari is joined by Louise Creechan, Joan Passey and Paul Baker.
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Essex
Looking beyond the stereotypes of the county that's often described as 'much maligned'.
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Diva
As the V&A opens an exhibition about performers, Naomi Paxton discusses what makes a diva.
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Portraits
The NPG re-opens. A look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary and oral history.
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Linda Grant and Jewish history
John Gallagher looks at the Manchester Jewish Museum and talks to novelist Linda Grant.
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Europe
Ece Temelkuran, Ben Judah, Misha Glenny and Timothy Garton Ash with Rana Mitter at Hay.
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Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu.
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Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
Tartan at V&A Dundee, RL Stevenson's Kidnapped on stage, and the Highland Book Prize 2022.
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Ireland's Hidden Histories and Secret Stories
With poet Majella Kelly, historian Jackie Uí Chionna and memoirist Carmel McMahon.
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Translating cultures
Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau.
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The culture of Albania
Matthew Sweet is joined by Lea Ypi, Adela Demetja, Ani Kokobobo and Aurel Qirjo.
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East Germany
Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature.
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Making your voice heard
Dina Nayeri, Kirsty Sedgman, Michelle Assay and Alberta Whittle join Shahidha Bari.
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Emigration
Laurence Scott finds out about 'Bad Bridgets', bush-ranger history and 'Home Children'.
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Speaking Welsh
Catherine Fletcher explores the relationship between Cymru and Cymraeg - Wales and Welsh.
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Perfecting the Body
Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Xine Yao and Harry Parker discuss.
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Tattoos
Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.
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Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.
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Belonging
A teacher's view, a Frankenstein-inspired ballet, outsider status and circus paintings.
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Punk
Punk often caused offence. Shahidha Bari asks if that idea of rebellion resonates today.
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Choice
Do poets choose their words or are they predetermined?
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James Baldwin and Race in the USA
Rana Mitter and guests re-read James Baldwin as a new US president is inaugurated.
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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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