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    East Meets West

    Orientalism now with Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, Tom Holland, and artist Inci Eviner.

  2. East Germany

    Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature

  3. Early cinema: why are we obsessed with firsts?

    Matthew Sweet looks back at the early history of cinema

  4. Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham

    Two Buddhist scholars and the socialist feminist historian join Rana Mitter

  5. Dystopian thinking

    As Kay Dick's They opens at MIF, Matthew Sweet and guests trace the history of dystopias.

  6. Dust, dirt and domesticity

    From mould to desertification Naomi Paxton and guests on the impact of dirt,heat and damp

  7. DΓΌrer, Rhinos and Whales

    Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.

  8. Drugs and Consciousness

    Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head?

  9. Dostoevsky

    Rana Mitter explores Dostoevsky as a thriller writer and comedian

  10. Donkeys

    From Aesop and the bible to the film EO which looks at a donkey born in a Polish circus.

  11. Dom Sylvester HouΓ©dard

    Matthew Sweet and guests on the career of the C20th concrete poet and Catholic mystic

  12. Does My Pet Love Me?

    A Free Thinking Festival discussion with Nicky Clayton, Erica Fudge & Kim Bard

  13. Does Growth Matter?

    Is the economic future all about growth? Danny Dorling discusses Slowdown.

  14. Diving Deep

    Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present

  15. Diverse Classical Music II

    Christienna Fryar speaks to four researchers whose work is expanding the musical canon

  16. Diva

    As the V&A opens an exhibition about performers, Naomi Paxton discusses what makes a diva

  17. Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars

    Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.

  18. Displacement

    Edmund de Waal and Frances Stonor Saunders discuss uncovering Jewish family stories.

  19. Discrimination

    The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.

  20. Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.

    Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.

  21. Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

    Sir Nigel Sheinwald,Clare Jackson, Holly Furneaux and Bronwen Maddox discuss diplomacy

  22. Digging Deep

    Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking

  23. Digging Deep

    Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.

  24. Dictators

    Matthew Sweet on Chaplin's 1941 film and rising populism today.

  25. Dickens, Disney and copyright

    Matthew Sweet looks at copyright rules for Mickey Mouse & Dickens in C19th America

  26. Dickens

    Mathew Sweet, Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead 150 years since Dickens' death

  27. Designing the future

    Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.

  28. Design

    Including a report from the London Design Biennale and film historian Peter Biskind.

  29. Depicting AIDS in Drama

    Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

  30. Depicting AIDS in Drama

    Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

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