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904 - Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

904 - Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today

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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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Episodios

Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today

Growing Up

Consciousness and Identity

Under the sea

Reading and storytelling

Thinking about war

Breakage and repair

Fun and games

Censorship

Biology, technology and the future

Rethinking politics

The arts and health

Animals and Meaning

Poetry - reading, writing, editing and translating

The Dark

Histories, emotions and identity

Space, Quantum Frontiers and Cosmic Clues

Genes and hands: mapping character and health

Digital Futures and Information Crises

Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi

Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch

Crossing genres with Wayne McGregor

Maps – lost, secret and revealing

Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes

Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war

Steven Pinker on common knowledge

Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford

Afghanistan and the DRC

Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance

Sanctuary, refuge and exile

The Idea of Genius

Hidden spaces and dangerous places

The uses and abuses of the atom

Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish

Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art

History: private, personal and political

Smell – the underrated sense

Advocating for nature

Christianity and British society

Impunity and fighting for justice

Untangling fact from fiction

Delusions of grandeur and freedom of speech

Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance

Lockdown and the Covid generation

How political ideology affects the brain

The Great Auk meets Victorian explorers, and zombie ponds

Community and industrial decline

Writing and rewriting history

Wages for Housework – then and now

Manufacturing and sustainability