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Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.
Oceans and the Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival
New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet
Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet
New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art
Vid Simoniti considers eco-art, from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng
New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown
Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about C16th English settlers in America
Tudor families
Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII
The Tudor Mind
Donne, Hamlet, 16th century psychology and mathematics, Tudor portraits
Tattoos
Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.
Goddesses
Christopher Harding explores the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others
Gandhi, Indian Architecture
Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi