War & Conflict
Free Thinking looks at war through power, peace negotiations, trees, spying, poetry and memory. Margaret MacMillan, Jonathan Powell, Naoko Shimazu, Kamila Shamsie, William Boyd, Elleke Boehmer.
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
As an Imperial War Museum show opens, Anne McElvoy and guests discuss art and the Troubles
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
As the IWM unveils its new art galleries, Anne McElvoy & guests discuss photographing war
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Appeasement
How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?
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Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
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Existential Risk
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests.
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
Matthew Sweet looks at the experiences of Portuguese Jewish and Roma communities.
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Women Warriors and Power Brokers
Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez share new research with Shahidha Bari.
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Korea and Japan
Chris Harding reads from Yu Miri's new novel, The End of August.
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East Germany
Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature.
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Yishai Sarid, Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research.
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The English Civil War
The resonances of C17 history now, discussed by Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay, Clare Jackson.
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
Video game designers, a former soldier, and curator of War Games at IWM join Anne McElvoy.
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Odessa Stories
Linda Grant and Boris Dralyuk discuss the writer Isaac Babel with Matthew Sweet.
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021
How do we define a war? Anne McElvoy and guests look at how language changes attitudes.
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The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
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War in fact and fiction
Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto
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Caesar, Hogarth and images of power
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard, artist Ali Cherri and looks at Hogarth's art.
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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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Yiddish and Rotwelsch Languages, Nazi France
Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about languages, codes and secrecy.
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Churchill's Reputation
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies.
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Spy Talk
From a secret Iraqi cell to new revelations of Cold War exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.
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Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar and Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
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Napoleon the Gardener and Art Thief
Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter.
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Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War
Rana Mitter talks to documentary makers, a novelist and historian about breaking silences.
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