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  1. Facing Facts

    From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces

  2. Essay - The Magic Years

    Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.

  3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights

    Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence

  4. Elif Safak at Free Thinking Festival

    The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter in an interview recorded at last...

  5. Egyptian Satire

    Dina Rezk explores the power of humour and protest

  6. Egyptian Satire

    The power of humour in protest.

  7. Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan

    Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose...

  8. Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Edna O'Brien talks to Philip Dodd about her new book Saints & Sinners.

  9. Digging Deep

    Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking

  10. Digging Deep

    Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.

  11. David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art

    David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet.

  12. Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self

    Directors Danny Boyle and Nev Schulman on their latest films; psychotherapist Susie on...

  13. Dam Fever and the Diaspora

    How do large dam projects gain widespread support despite past examples asks Majed Akhter

  14. Dam Fever and The Diaspora

    How do large dam projects attract such adoration, despite lessons of twentieth century?

  15. Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of Novelists

    Philip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world...

  16. Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics

    Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also...

  17. Comrades in Arms

    Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality

  18. Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care

    Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the UK

  19. Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

    Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK & Lebanon

  20. Chris Patten

    The full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Governor and new chairman of the BBC...

  21. Children of the Waters

    Sabina Dosani looks at the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage

  22. Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau

  23. Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.

  24. Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

    The father of modern computing thought the sea could communicate. Joan Passey explains.

  25. Call Me Mother

    How the shape of words for mother helps babies eat their food. Rebecca Woods explains

  26. Byron, celebrity and fan mail

    Would Byron have embraced Twitter?

  27. Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War

    Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?

  28. Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys

    A look at Butlins at 75 with Roy Hudd and Martin Parr, an interview with Werner Egan...

  29. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

    Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden

  30. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard

    New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle

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