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New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
Thu 16 May 2024
Introducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme
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New Thinking: Exploring the Local
Fri 26 Apr 2024
New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office.
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New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
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New Thinking: East West Artistic Connections
Wed 27 Mar 2024
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art.
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New Thinking: How Water Shapes Our History and Environment
Fri 22 Mar 2024
From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water.
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New Thinking: Carols and Convents
Wed 20 Dec 2023
English Nuns abroad, and are carols just for Christmas?
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New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
Fri 1 Dec 2023
Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles
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New Thinking: Rediscovering Women Making Film and Sculpture
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Kathleen Collins’ film scripts and women sculptors working in wax.
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New Thinking: The Box Office Bears Project
Wed 8 Nov 2023
From digging for bones to the connection between bear baiting and Elizabethan theatre.
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New Thinking: How and Why We Talk
Wed 8 Nov 2023
John Gallagher hears about tongue shapes, accent prejudice and the importance of gossip.
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New Thinking: Playhouses and Opera-going
Mon 6 Nov 2023
What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?
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New Thinking: Food
Sun 5 Nov 2023
Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality
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New Thinking: Writing Exile and Overcoming Statelessness
Thu 2 Nov 2023
The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan and a novel about a boy wanting to be an astronaut.
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New Thinking: Work and Protest
Fri 13 Oct 2023
From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911.
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New Thinking: Modernism, Exile and Homelessness
Mon 9 Oct 2023
Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity.
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Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Mon 4 Sep 2023
Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing
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Writing and Place: Wales
Sun 30 Jul 2023
Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing
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Writing and Place: The North-East
Sat 22 Jul 2023
Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan
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Writing and Place: Northern Ireland
Mon 17 Jul 2023
Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari
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New Thinking: Women and Football
Thu 6 Jul 2023
Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football
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New Thinking: Oral Histories and the NHS
Tue 4 Jul 2023
New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing.
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New Thinking: Children and Health
Mon 3 Jul 2023
What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?
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New Thinking: Health Inequalities
Sun 2 Jul 2023
Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues.
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New Thinking: Design and Health
Sat 1 Jul 2023
From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition.
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New Thinking: Writing the NHS
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing
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New Thinking: Fashion, Sustainability and Earth Day
Thu 20 Apr 2023
From outfits which double as tents to material and algae: Lucy Orta and Monica Buchan-Ng.
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New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
Wed 5 Apr 2023
Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger and early 1900s queer life writing.
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New Thinking: AI, Feminism, Human/Machines
Thu 23 Mar 2023
What ethical questions arise from new human-machine relations as we collaborate with AI?
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New Thinking: British Sign Language
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Kate Rowley and Gerardo Ortega talk about new research into British Sign Language
