New Research
New Research from UK Universities - maths to Marxism, black History and the Being Human Festival All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers—Arts & Ideas
Introducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme
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New Thinking: Exploring the Local—Arts & Ideas
New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office.
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New Thinking: East West Artistic Connections—Arts & Ideas
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art.
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New Thinking: Rediscovering Women Making Film and Sculpture—Arts & Ideas
Kathleen Collins’ film scripts and women sculptors working in wax.
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New Thinking: Light and Darkness—Arts & Ideas
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
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New Thinking: How Water Shapes Our History and Environment—Arts & Ideas
From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water.
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New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre—Arts & Ideas
Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles
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New Thinking: Carols and Convents—Arts & Ideas
English Nuns abroad, and are carols just for Christmas?
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New Thinking: Stitching Stories
Shahidha Bari visits a textile art show + research on embroidery, stage outfits, vintage
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New Thinking: The Box Office Bears Project—Arts & Ideas
From digging for bones to the connection between bear baiting and Elizabethan theatre.
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New Thinking: Work and Protest—Arts & Ideas
From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911.
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New Thinking: How and Why We Talk—Arts & Ideas
John Gallagher hears about tongue shapes, accent prejudice and the importance of gossip.
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New Thinking: Playhouses and Opera-going—Arts & Ideas
What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?
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New Thinking: Writing Exile and Overcoming Statelessness—Arts & Ideas
The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan and a novel about a boy wanting to be an astronaut.
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New Thinking: Food—Arts & Ideas
Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality
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New Thinking: Modernism, Exile and Homelessness—Arts & Ideas
Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity.
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New Thinking: Children and Health—Arts & Ideas
What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?
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New Thinking: Health Inequalities—Arts & Ideas
Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues.
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New Thinking: Oral Histories and the NHS—Arts & Ideas
New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing.
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New Thinking: Design and Health—Arts & Ideas
From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition.
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New Thinking: Writing the NHS—Arts & Ideas
Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing
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New Thinking: Fashion, Sustainability and Earth Day—Arts & Ideas
From outfits which double as tents to material and algae: Lucy Orta and Monica Buchan-Ng.
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New Thinking: Net Zero Design—Arts & Ideas
How can local communities play a role in cutting carbon emissions?
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New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld—Arts & Ideas
Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger and early 1900s queer life writing.
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