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Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence

• 45 mins

Sea Goings

Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark

• 51 mins

Street Culture, Protests, Food.

Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.

• 45 mins

Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk

• 46 mins

Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds

Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series

• 46 mins

Spike Lee

The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.

• 46 mins

Africa Babel China

Histories of West Africa, 20th c China, art of translation

• 44 mins

Love

Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha- the science & art of love.

• 46 mins

Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance

Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture

• 58 mins

Patti LuPone

The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian-American roots.

• 44 mins

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

• 44 mins

Authority in the Era of Populism

Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts & Rupert Reid w/ Anne McElvoy

• 73 mins

Images of Japan

Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.

• 44 mins

Jack the Ripper and women as victims

Rescuing the Ripper's victims from the shadows of history

• 45 mins

Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

Laurence Scott & Will Self on redundant features in design + a visit to Collect Craft Show

• 44 mins

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.

Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, and the history of sewing.

• 44 mins

David Bailey, Don McCullin

Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

• 49 mins

Is British Culture Getting Wierder?

Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner & William Fowler.

• 58 mins

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo & Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.

• 45 mins

Women, relationships and the law past and present

Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay

• 45 mins

The Council Estate in Culture

Why are estates so often portrayed as incubators of social deprivation and criminality?

• 45 mins

Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women

Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri

• 53 mins

George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri

One poet and two writers in conversation about language, migrants and personhood

• 44 mins

Empathy

Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey & AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.

• 45 mins

Childhood faces and fears

A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney

• 44 mins

Betrayal

Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal

• 45 mins

Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

• 46 mins

Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture

Historian of emotions Professor Thomas Dixon, Matthew Sweet & the Sage Gateshead audience

• 59 mins

A city is not a park but should it be?

A short talk at the Free Thinking Festival from New Generation Thinker Des Fitzgerald.

• 21 mins

Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.

• 47 mins