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    Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.

    From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community & the 29 bus route

  2. Burns the Radical; Exploration

    Humboldt as Ecuadorian explorer, plus the territory between Scotland and England.

  3. Building London

    Eric Parry & Alison Brooks; writers Fiona Mozley & SI Martin; pianist Belle Chen

  4. Building Bridges and Other Megastructures

    Writer Erica Wagner, engineer Sean Wilkinson & architect Simon Roberts with Rana Mitter.

  5. Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon

    Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 film that made Bruce Lee an international star

  6. British New Wave Films of the '60s

    Matthew Sweet on the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey and The Knack.

  7. British Conceptual Art.

    Philip Dodd talks to artist Bruce McLean about British Conceptual Art on show at Tate.

  8. British Academy Book Prize 2022

    Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

  9. Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment

    Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Hannah Greig

  10. Breathe

    Soweto Kinch, James Nestor, and Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture

  11. Breaking Down the Barriers

    The cultural contribution of Muslim women and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane

  12. Breakfast

    Literally "breaking the fast" - Matthew Sweet moves from the Full English to Tiffany's.

  13. Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith

    Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing + Stevie's Smith's writing

  14. Boyhood to manhood

    Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now

  15. Boredom

    Time and the value of doing nothing

  16. Borders: On the ground, on the map, in the mind

    From Ireland to Turkey, from soldiering to walking to photographing - with Anne McElvoy.

  17. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

    Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden

  18. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard

    New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle

  19. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

    Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi

  20. Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman

    2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations

  21. Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

    New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper

  22. Book Parts and Difficulty

    Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

  23. Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

    Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

  24. Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

    Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922

  25. Blackmail & Shame

    Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film

  26. Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley

    We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 in...

  27. Black British History

    Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain

  28. Black Atlantic

    Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

  29. Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller

    We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German and...

  30. Billy Wilder

    Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot

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