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  1. Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor of the civil war.

  2. Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor

  3. Writing and Place: Wales

    Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing

  4. Writing and Place: The North-East

    Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan

  5. Writing and Place: The Cairngorms

    Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing

  6. Writing and Place: Northern Ireland

    Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari

  7. Writing and Place: Cornwall

    Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey

  8. Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human

    Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris.

  9. Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

    Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment

  10. Who Wrote Animal Farm?

    Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.

  11. Where Do Human Rights Come From?

    Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket

  12. When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

    Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.

  13. What does feminist art mean?

    Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement

  14. Weird Viking Bodies

    Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip

  15. Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons

    With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...

  16. Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens

    In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...

  17. Unravelling plainness

    Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity

  18. Tudor Virtual Reality

    The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgment of Solomon

  19. Tudor Virtual Reality

    What is the link between VR dinosaurs & a Tudor wall painting of the Judgement of Solomon?

  20. Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George

    Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of...

  21. The well-groomed Georgian

    Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth

  22. The Way I See It: Steven Pinker and Picasso

    Harvard professor Steven Pinker picks a work of art that inspires him from MOMA, New York

  23. The Trial of Ubu, David Scheffer & The Hajj

    Matthew Sweet talks to David Scheffer, architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunal and...

  24. The Legacy of the Laundries

    Louise Brangan reflects on the uncovering of the secret lives lived in Irish laundries

  25. The Heir of Redclyffe

    Clare Walker-Gore revisits Charlotte M. Yonge's best-selling novel from 1853.

  26. The Hard Man in the Call-Centre

    Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys

  27. The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh

    Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.

  28. The Forgotten German Princess

    The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.

  29. The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea

    New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot's Essay from the Free Thinking Festival

  30. The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama

    Daisy Black conjures up images of breaking bread and cannibalism in mystery plays

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