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    New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld

    Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger & early 1900s queer life writing

  2. New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles

    What happens when one becomes two?

  3. New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going

    What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?

  4. New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project

    Incl a Welsh castle w/ more Mughal Art than India's National Museum - a new UK poem map

  5. New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS

    New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing

  6. New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness

    Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity

  7. New Thinking: Mental Health Research

    How can young people regulate their emotions and can gaming help adolescent mental health

  8. New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration

    From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.

  9. New Thinking: Light and Darkness

    Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature

  10. New Thinking: Language Loss and revival

    John Gallagher is joined by Gwenno, who writes and sings in Cornish, and others

  11. New Thinking: India in the archives

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

  12. New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment

    From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water

  13. New Thinking: How and why we talk

    John Gallagher hears about tongue shapes, accent prejudice and the importance of gossip

  14. New Thinking: health inequalities

    Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues

  15. New Thinking: George Eliot

    Writer of the English provinces?

  16. New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

    Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv and history

  17. New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

    Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv depicting history

  18. New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets

    A computer game for cystic fibrosis patients to improve breathing

  19. New Thinking: Food

    Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality

  20. New Thinking: Flooding and Energy

    Can old field names and labelling energy sources help us cope better with climate change?

  21. New Thinking: Films and Research

    Films investigating melting glaciers, to refugee camps, public bathrooms, & more.

  22. New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day

    From outfits which double as tents to material and algae: Lucy Orta and Monica Buchan-Ng

  23. New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability

    The Future Fashion Factory and changing our attitude to #fastfashion. Plus AI and colours

  24. New Thinking: Exploring the local

    New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office

  25. New Thinking: East West artistic connections

    A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art

  26. New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

    Digging into the music of composers Joseph Boulogne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry

  27. New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre

    Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles

  28. New Thinking: Design and health

    From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition

  29. New Thinking: City Talk

    Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop

  30. New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping

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

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