New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art

Vid Simoniti considers eco-art, from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet

Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet

• 14 mins

Oceans and the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival

• 45 mins

Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy

The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.

• 45 mins

Get Carter

Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities

Hidden LGBTQ+ histories in Northern Ireland and queer cinema in contemporary China

• 39 mins

The Wolfson Prize 2022

Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for this prize for history writing.

• 45 mins

Victorian streets

Is that strong inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one?

• 44 mins

John McGrath's Scottish Drama

Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

• 44 mins

South African writing

Damon Galgut discusses his Booker winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922

• 45 mins

Slow Film and Ecology

Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film made about rice over 18 years

• 45 mins

Sheffield reinvented

New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Waiting

What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?

• 36 mins

ETA Hoffmann

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the life of the German Romantic who died 25 June 1822.

• 45 mins

Late works

Geoff Dyer and Dame Sheila Hancock discuss endings and lateness with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Belief, Habit & Religion

Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history

• 44 mins

David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist

Two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world

• 45 mins

Vampires and the Penny Dreadful

Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

• 45 mins

New Thinking: India in the archives

Dr Naomi Paxton explores archives for stories of Indian culture and history.

• 30 mins

Writing about money

Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics

• 45 mins

The Black Fantastic

How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.

• 45 mins

Women warriors and power brokers

Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez with Shahidha Bari

• 45 mins

France, music hall and history

An outdoor history of France and a look inside popular French theatre's view on Britain

• 45 mins

Satyajit Ray's films

Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta, Chandak Sengoopta discuss Ray with Rana Mitter

• 44 mins

The Daleks

Matthew Sweet's guests include the voice of the Daleks, and the Doctor's granddaughter

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping

Dr William Butler and Jenny Bunn from the National Archives discuss record keeping.

• 32 mins

Modernism around the world

Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art

• 44 mins

Futurism

Matthew Sweet and guests look at the manifesto celebrating youth, technology and violence

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties

What Birmingham can learn from Scotland + commonwealth commercial connections in the past

• 26 mins