Culture
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Wellbeing
Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past
28 minutes
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Mental health
Under the mkone tree
When I returned to Kenya, where I grew up, I found biomedicine and traditional medicine in conversation about mental health
Priya Basil
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Biography and memoir
My blackness
At times I’ve tried to escape it. Other times I’ve embraced it. But at all times, people have attempted to define me by it
Colin Grant
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Family life
Fifty years ago, a train collided with Jack and Betty’s car. Here’s how they remember it
9 minutes
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Virtues and vices
From violent criminal to loving parent – a son’s story of his father’s transformation
23 minutes
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Teaching and learning
Ronald grew up in a New York City library. It was as strange and wondrous as it sounds
3 minutes
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Biography and memoir
What Akiko saw at the centre of the Hiroshima blast, and the indelible mark it left
15 minutes
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Art
Can art in a swanky restaurant ever be transcendent? On Rothko’s Seagram Murals
15 minutes
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Film and visual culture
At the movies with Pauline Kael – in the arthouse cinema where she got her start
19 minutes
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Music
Nick ponders the life of the mysterious girl whose used CDs shaped his teenage years
5 minutes
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Nature and landscape
Nature does not care
Too many nature writers descend into poetic self-absorption instead of the sharp-eyed realism the natural world deserves
Richard Smyth
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Knowledge
A poet’s ode to the Hubble Telescope – and to her father, who helped to build it
2 minutes
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Gender and identity
What happened when a gay Black man joined the Metropolitan Police in London
25 minutes
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Human rights and justice
Inside ambiguity
We are suspended between the inescapable facts of our lives and what we do to contest them, nowhere more than in prison
Andy West
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Archaeology
Nefertiti’s bust
How did this ancient and enigmatic sculpture of a beautiful Egyptian queen end up as fortune’s hostage in Germany?
Joyce Tyldesley
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Biography and memoir
Meet Haddon Salt – the would-have-been Colonel Sanders of fish and chips
9 minutes
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Art
An ageing artist’s unguarded thoughts on what it takes to be great – and why he lacks it
12 minutes
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Sex and sexuality
Idealising the predator
How did certain French intellectuals get away with preying upon young girls, shamelessly, in public and over decades?
Lily Dunn
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Biography and memoir
Meet the Liverbirds! The bittersweet tale of Liverpool’s all-female answer to the Beatles
16 minutes
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Ageing and death
How an end-of-life doula found her vocation as a companion for the dying
7 minutes
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Art
How a self-taught autistic artist mines creativity from life’s endless variations
11 minutes
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Music
Maestro of more than music
Look beneath the surface of Bach’s music and you will find a fascinating hidden world of numerology and cunning craft
Milton Mermikides
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Family life
An artist grapples with the loss of his brother, and the problem of canine abduction
7 minutes
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Spirituality
Where the rivers meet
Pilgrims have long sought in India’s holiest city an antidote to the modern West, but Varanasi is more dream than reality
Manini Sheker