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The cultural contribution of Muslim women, and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane.

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Breaking Down the Barriers
The cultural contribution of Muslim women, and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane.
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Artist, archaeologists, a writer and a historian of the face make the invisible visible.
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Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Matthew Sweet discusses James Joyce's groundbreaking novel of 1939.
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Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.
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Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
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Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
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Language and Belonging
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Russia and Fear.
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Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
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Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Matthew Sweet and guests on Iris Murdoch's thought and writing 100 years on from her birth
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Caine Prize, Ivo van Hove, Female desire
Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.
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An insider's view of war
Ex-marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman on al-Qaeda and the Iraq War.
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Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism.
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New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith
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Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.
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James Ellroy
Philip Dodd is in conversation with American author James Ellroy.
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Tolerance, censorship and free speech
Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen and Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.
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Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation.
Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas.
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Back to the '80s
From Stranger Things to Stephen King's It - Matthew Sweet and guests revisit '80s culture.
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Surveillance and Secrets from the Archives
Matthew Sweet on surveillance capitalism, The Third Man and Stieg Larsson's archive.
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Anxiety
Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist Héctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.
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Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
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Mark Haddon
Anne McElvoy talks to Mark Haddon about his career and latest novel The Porpoise.
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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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Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day
Who holds the power? US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.
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The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan talks art with Philip Dodd.
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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
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2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Anne McElvoy talks prehistory with archaeologist Mike Pitts and artist Renee So.
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The Woolly episode.
From Sean the Sheep & Damien Hirst to clothiers & a knitted bikini. Shahida Bari presents.
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Dictators
Matthew Sweet and guests on Chaplin's 1941 film, The Great Dictator, and rising populism.
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The 2019 Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.
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What to Believe
Rana Mitter and guests look at the history of atheism and morality.
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Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.
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Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
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Cars, Parking and Motorways.
A discussion reflecting on automobiles, AI and the 60th anniversary of the M1 motorway.
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Halloween. Ghost Stories
Haunting stories with Kirsty Logan, Jeremy Dyson and host Shahidha Bari.
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Quatermass
Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.
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The changing image of masculinity
Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola and Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life.
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The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Carrie Riechardt, Peter Bazalgette, Zahed Tajeddin and Rebecca Newall with Anne McElvoy.
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Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
Le Gateau Chocolat, Lucy McCormick and Gaylene Gould with Matthew Sweet at the Barbican.
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Why We Need New News: Being Human Festival Research
Shahidha Bari looks at news past and present from hangings to updating TV news bulletins.
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Backstage
Sanchez Payne
Sanchez Payne sits in for an arts, culture and musical round-up from West Yorkshire.
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YouTuber Ahmed Zaman explores the world of social influencers and content creators.
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The Essay
The Weimar Years
Episode 3
Author Katie Sutton looks at sexuality in the Weimar Republic.
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Mobeen Azhar
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Mothers and fathers without babies.
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Books and Authors
Damian Le Bas & Amy Liptrott
The Romany writer and broadcaster Damian Le Bas and author Amy Liptrot choose a good read
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