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    What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs

    Poetic and archaeological trip round our fascination with what comes up when we dig down.

  2. What kind of history should we write?

    Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter

  3. What is Speech?

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox

  4. What is normal?

    Sarah Chaney, Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman on neurodiversity, with Matthew Sweet

  5. What is good listening?

    Matthew Sweet with NYT journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf, David Toop.

  6. What does game playing teach us?

    Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.

  7. What does feminist art mean?

    Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement

  8. What does a black history curriculum look like?

    Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach?

  9. What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.

    Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.

  10. What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?

    Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.

  11. What Camus and Claude LΓ©vi-Strauss teach us

    Being an outsider and learning to think like an outsider

  12. Whale-watching

    Philip Hoare, Rachel Murray, Peter Riley and Edward Sugden explore marine life.

  13. Whale watching

    Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.

  14. Were the Luddites Right?

    Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their...

  15. Weird Viking Bodies

    Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip

  16. Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture

    Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Cabaret and club culture, recorded at the Barbican.

  17. Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons

    With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...

  18. War in fact and fiction

    Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.

  19. Walls

    Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall

  20. Vikings

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to scholars with new insights on the Viking period

  21. Victorian streets

    Is that strong inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one?

  22. Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork

    Nandini Das visits Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean in Oxford and talks to a jeweller

  23. Vampires and the Penny Dreadful

    Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

  24. Valis and Philip K Dick

    A weirdly autobiographical science fiction novel from 1981 inspired by hallucinations.

  25. Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens

    In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...

  26. Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and others discuss the politics of this 1973 fable

  27. Unravelling plainness

    Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity

  28. Twilight

    Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish

  29. Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history

    Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60 died in an execution

  30. Tudor Virtual Reality

    The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgment of Solomon

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