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Women, language & experience
Shahidha Bari's guests include Karen McCarthy Woolf, Lauren Elkin and Sara Ahmed
Authority
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss authority in politics, business and education.
Crime and punishment medieval to modern
Matthew Sweet's guests include Lord Sumption and criminal barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind
Working Class Creativity
Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed
Is Might Right?
The history of an idea that's shaped political philosophy, from Plato to Carl Schmitt
Labour, work and productivity
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss labour in terms of both work and childbirth
Double Lives
From spying behind enemy lines in WWII France to lives lived online
Victorian Values
Gisela Stuart, AN Wilson, Fern Riddell, Sarah Williams, Matthew Stallard, Matthew Sweet
Innovation
Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty
Travel
Travel past and present and broadening the mind? Travel journalists and historians debate
