The Way We Live Now
From moral questions to the quirks & pleasures of life: Discrimination; Death Rituals; What Nietszche teaches us; Witches & Woodlands; Spookiness; The Joy of Sewing; Kids Fiction
Picnics
From Picnic at Hanging Rock to an Iron Curtain Pan European picnic
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The Condom and VD
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about sexual health, VD clinics, sex work and condoms.
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Food
Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality.
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Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
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Happiness
Matthew Sweet investigates the history, politics and economics of this elusive concept.
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Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
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Free speech, censorship and modern China
The writings of Chinese women, from Ding Ling to coming of age in the 1990s
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Sleep justice and sleeplessness
Laurence Scott talks to researchers exploring how we sleep and the idea of sleep justice
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Secrets, lies and Irish History
Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry and Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict.
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Chocolate
Shahidha Bari discusses the confection that has conquered the world.
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Dust, dirt and domesticity
From mould to desertification Naomi Paxton and guests on the impact of dirt,heat and damp
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What is normal?
Sarah Chaney, Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman discuss neurodiversity with Matthew Sweet
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Dickens, Disney and copyright
Matthew Sweet looks at copyright rules for Mickey Mouse and Dickens in C19th America.
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Game playing
Shahidha Bari finds out how to win at rock, paper, scissors and to make a Windrush game.
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Sleep
John Gallagher gets sleeping tips from research pioneers and early modern history
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Why go into space?
Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration.
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How and why we talk
John Gallagher hears about Gaelic consonants, tongue shapes and accent prejudice
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Notebooks and new technology
Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington.
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Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language
Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers.
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African identity via China and photography
Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.
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Postwar Germany
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of World War II.
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Childhood and play
The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak.
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Boyhood to Manhood
Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now.
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Agoraphobia
Writer Graham Caveney joins Matthew Sweet and guests.
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