The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.

• 44 mins

The Generation Gap

Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoyé talk family histories with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Sisters

The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Lucy Holland and Shahidha Bari

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Women’s history

The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

• 41 mins

New Thinking: Women’s history

The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

• 41 mins

Blackmail & Shame

Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film

• 44 mins

Fashion Stories: Body Armour

Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies

• 12 mins

Fashion Stories: In a handbag

Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us

• 14 mins

Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns

Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes

• 13 mins

Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history

Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing

• 13 mins

Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring

Lauren Working explores the Cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles

• 13 mins

The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture

How an East German creative writing class fought the cold war: was their poetry any good?

• 44 mins

Vikings

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to scholars with new insights on the Viking period

• 44 mins

John Maynard Keynes

From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes

• 44 mins

After Dark Festival: Equinox

Matthew Sweet looks for meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.

• 44 mins

After Dark Festival: Dark Places

A poet, crime writer, theologian & marine biologist join Matthew Sweet to explore darkness

• 44 mins

Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon

Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 film that made Bruce Lee an international star

• 44 mins

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap

Confronting the man who jilted you is the plot of this 1960s Argentine expressionist film

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio

• 45 mins

Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment

Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Hannah Greig

• 44 mins

China: world politics, ink art & insomnia

Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA

• 44 mins

Grief

Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.

• 44 mins

Ships and History

Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards, and Tom Nancollas

• 45 mins

Housework

Gender, class & domestic tasks-Matthew Sweet pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage

From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives

• 44 mins

Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound

Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?

• 44 mins

Teaching and Inspiration

Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield

Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of the poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.

• 14 mins

Rainer Maria Rilke

Anne McElvoy looks at the life and legacy of the intriguing poet

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé

• 13 mins