Double-TalkA feature exploring the art of the dialogue, in philosophy and law, in religion, psychoanalysis and the arts.
The Medium is the Message'Generation X' author Douglas Coupland reflects on the ideas, sound and vision of 1960s media guru Marshall McLuhan, who fifty years ago coined the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village'- an uncanny prophet for our own digital media age.
Revolution in IdeasThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was not only a political revolution, it was an unprecedented thought experiment - a revolution in ideas.
MANIFESTOA new five-part series exploring the art and politics of the artist's manifesto - from the Futurists to Fluxus, from Dada to the present.
GridThis feature explores the grid as the great hidden device behind art, architecture and urban design, of the musical score - an emblem of modernism and a perceptual model for the digital age.
From the Couch to the CourtroomHelena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and the mind doctors.
Double-TalkA feature exploring the art of the dialogue, in philosophy and law, in religion, psychoanalysis and the arts.
The Medium is the Message'Generation X' author Douglas Coupland reflects on the ideas, sound and vision of 1960s media guru Marshall McLuhan, who fifty years ago coined the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village'- an uncanny prophet for our own digital media age.
Revolution in IdeasThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was not only a political revolution, it was an unprecedented thought experiment - a revolution in ideas.
MANIFESTOA new five-part series exploring the art and politics of the artist's manifesto - from the Futurists to Fluxus, from Dada to the present.
GridThis feature explores the grid as the great hidden device behind art, architecture and urban design, of the musical score - an emblem of modernism and a perceptual model for the digital age.
From the Couch to the CourtroomHelena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and the mind doctors.
Double-TalkA feature exploring the art of the dialogue, in philosophy and law, in religion, psychoanalysis and the arts.
The Medium is the Message'Generation X' author Douglas Coupland reflects on the ideas, sound and vision of 1960s media guru Marshall McLuhan, who fifty years ago coined the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village'- an uncanny prophet for our own digital media age.
Revolution in IdeasThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was not only a political revolution, it was an unprecedented thought experiment - a revolution in ideas.
MANIFESTOA new five-part series exploring the art and politics of the artist's manifesto - from the Futurists to Fluxus, from Dada to the present.
GridThis feature explores the grid as the great hidden device behind art, architecture and urban design, of the musical score - an emblem of modernism and a perceptual model for the digital age.
From the Couch to the CourtroomHelena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and the mind doctors.
Helena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our law, media and digital lives - and above all in politics.
A year after last November’s terror attacks in Paris, journalist Nick Fraser explores the deeper culture war taking place between a new generation of French Muslims and the defenders of hard-line secular Republicanism in France.
On the 50th anniversary of its foundation, Dorian Warren explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for recent black insurgency in America.
Norma Percy draws on taped interview rushes and her own TV archive to reflect on her long career in documentary making, recalling her favourite encounters and the interviews she will never forget - as well as the role of television in making history.
A two-part series exploring the philosophical and historical foundations of Human Rights, presented by Helena Kennedy QC and produced by Simon Hollis
Exploring the poetic sound world of postwar radio documentary pioneer, Denis Mitchell. Mitchell roamed the streets of Manchester and Liverpool, recording voices of everyday people and becoming one of the first radio producers in the country to exploit the potential of new portable tape machines.
Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black Aquarius - the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s.
Former news editor Charlie Beckett explores the mainstream news agenda's preoccupation with violent crime, misfortune and disaster, and asks why alternative, so-called positive or solutions-based ideas for news are so readily dismissed by journalists, broadcasters and editors.
How long can justice wait? Former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC explores the relationship between justice and the passing of time.