explore words discover worlds
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Expand your horizons with 'explore words discover worlds', the podcast that brings the world of Bradford Literature Festival to your ears. From the classics to the cutting edge, we'll introduce you to the most exciting and thought-provoking authors, poets, and thinkers.
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The Poetry of Resistance: Faiz, Neruda, Darwish, and Qabbani
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May 27, 2026 |
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Memoirs of Food: Angela Hui & Candice Chung
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May 20, 2026 |
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Weapons of Influence: China, the West, and the New Global Flashpoints
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May 13, 2026 |
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Shitty Breaks: A Celebration of Unsung UK Cities
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May 06, 2026 |
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The Shortest History of Japan
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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More Sense and Less Sensibility
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Breaking Bread with Kitty & Al-Tait
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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AI and Religious Authority: When Machines Preach, Who Leads?
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Great Faith: Stories of Sacrifice and Contribution
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Beyond the Biennale: Islamic Art and its Contemporary Resonance
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Blake and the American Dream
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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A Culinary Journey through al-Andalus
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Careers in Publishing
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Reclaiming Feminism
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Soaking the soul in the recital
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Jane Austen: The Woman Behind the Words
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Aftermath: How WWII Still Governs Global Affairs
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Syria in Transition: What Comes Next?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The European Genocide: Remembering Srebrenica
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Paul Rogers: The World in 2030
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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The Day That Changed Britain, Twenty Years Since 7.7
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Future Worlds Prize: Crafting Otherworlds
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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The Food Our Grandmothers Knew
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Beyond the Headlines: Understanding the Crisis in Sudan
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Freedom of Expression: Who Gets to Speak?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The World Today 2025
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Islamophobia Now: Power, Prejudice and Resistance
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Qur'anic Themes and Parables
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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The Future of Europe: Power, Politics and the New World Order
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Haunted Histories: Magic, Memory and the Supernatural in Fiction
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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The Rise of the Far Right: What is at stake for the West
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of Modern Hindu Identity
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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From Civilisation to Civil War: A History of Syria
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The Roma: A Travelling History
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Crimea: Conflict, Conquest and Consequence
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Al-Qaswa - the beloved she-camel of the Prophet Muhammad
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Poetry for the Many: Jeremy Corbyn & Len McCluskey
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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50 Years After Saigon
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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40 Years On: The Lasting Legacy of the Miner’s Strike
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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WritersMosaic Presents: Global Crime Queens
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Rumi and Iqbal: Divine Love
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Free Word Lecture
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Anne Brontë and Agnes Grey: Parallels of Resilience and Reality
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The End of Liberal Democracy
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The Essential Martin Lings
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Sairish Hussain: Hidden Fires
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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So You're Published, Now What?
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Bee Rowlatt: One Woman Crime Wave
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Echoes of The Orisha
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Joanne Harris: The Moonlight Market
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Globe Plotters: International Perspectives in Crime Fiction
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May 28, 2025 |
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Why Can't I See My GP?
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Kingdom of the Heart
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May 14, 2025 |
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Art and Class: How the middle classes hijacked the nation’s galleries
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May 07, 2025 |
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Priestley and Pythons
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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And Still We Rise
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Being Muslim with Dr Asad Tarsin of Zaytuna College
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Joelle Taylor In Conversation: The Night Alphabet
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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From Pen To Published
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Shaparak Khorsandi in Conversation: Scatter Brain
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Blake's Role in Modern Mental Health
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Ahmed Paul Keeler: A Life's Journey - The Story Behind the Book
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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The Art of Enlightenment: Islamic Contributions to Global Culture
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Breaking Boundaries: Anne Brontë's Feminist Legacy
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Can Crime Ever Be Cosy?
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Jerusalem Through the Ages
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Edward Said: Orientalism Revisited
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Documenting Disaster
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Healing with the Qur’an: Depression and Anxiety
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Orwell's 1984: 75 Years On
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Kate Bottley in Conversation
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Lunch Bite: The Night Soil Men
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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WritersMosaic: Remember Me
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Paul Rogers: The Insecurity Trap
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Weaving the Future
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Worlds Within Words
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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The Happy Nomad
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Blake and Gibran: Poets of Prophetic Vision
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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S3:E13 A Somali Village in Colonial Bradford
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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S3 EP12: Ballots Across Borders, Election Year Across the World
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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S3 EP11: Legacies of the British Mandate in Palestine
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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S3 EP10: Fixing France
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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S3 EP9: Dave Gibbons and Tim Pilcher in Conversation
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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S3 EP8: The Making and Breaking of the Modern Middle East
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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S3 EP7: Russia 100 - From Stalin to Putin
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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S3 EP6: Sonnets and Sarnies
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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S3 EP5: Watergate - 50 Years On, The Scandal That Never Dies
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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S3 EP4: The Treatises of Imam al-Ghazali
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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S2 EP3: Plants of the Qur'an
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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S3 EP2: The Forgotten Crisis in Sudan
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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S3 EP1: Husam Zomlot in Conversation
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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S2 EP51: Understanding Emily Brontë
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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S2 EP50: State of the (Poetry) Nation
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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S2 EP49: Algorithmic Realities
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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S2 EP48: The Golden Age of Islam
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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S2 EP47: Ben Aaronovitch and Jonathan Stroud in Conversation
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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S2 EP46: Hyper-Individualism - A 21st Century Obsession
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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S2 EP45 : Hitler's Rise to Power
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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S2 EP44: Alt Wallah the Muslim Manosphere
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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S2 EP43: Women We Buried, Women We Burned
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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S2 EP42: New World Order - China and Russia
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May 29, 2024 |
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S2 EP41: Among the Eunuchs
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May 22, 2024 |
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S2 EP40: Kit De Waal In Conversation
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May 15, 2024 |
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S2 EP39: In Search of Boudica
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May 08, 2024 |
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S2 E38: A Woman’s Life on the Road - Sara Wheeler and Christina Lamb In Conversation
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May 01, 2024 |
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S2 EP37: Tolkien and Lewis - Friendship That Redefined Fantasy
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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S2 EP36: The Artist and the Ethics
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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S2 EP35: In Search of the Divine - Living Histories of Sufism in India
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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S2 EP34: Behind the Brontës with Blake Morrison
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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S2 EP33: What Does A Jew Look Like?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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S2 EP32: The Power of Activism
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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S2 EP31: Average Whiteman - Ian Abdal Latif Whiteman and Richard Thompson in Conversation
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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S2 E30: Our River... Our Sky (Film Q&A)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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S2 EP29: Refugee Prophets - From Moses to Muhammad
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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S2 EP28: What Lights My Feminist Fire?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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S2 EP27: Homelands - A Personal History of Europe
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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S2 EP26: Biological Security After the Pandemic
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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S2 EP25: Picasso - Outside the Frame
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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S2 EP24: Shashi Tharoor on Ambedkar A Life
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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S2 EP23: Songbook with Richard Thompson
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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S2 EP22: The Romani & Traveller 'Voice' in World Literature
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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S2 EP21: Coup Against Democracy - Iran 70 Years On
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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S2 EP20: Astropolitics - The New Frontier
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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S2 EP19: Samantha Shannon & Tasha Suri In Conversation
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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S2 EP18: The Universal Appeal of Rumi's Poetry
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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S2 EP17: You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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S2 EP16: Reza Aslan - An American Martyr in Persia
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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S2 EP15: In Conversation Vasay Chaudhry
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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S2 EP14: The Birth of the Middle East
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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S2 EP13: The Ottoman Empire - From Conquest to Collapse
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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S2 EP12: 20 Years of the Good Friday Agreement
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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S2 EP11: Tiger Work - Ben Okri In Conversation
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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S2 EP10: The World in 2030 with Professor Paul Rogers
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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S2 EP9: Baby Does a Runner - Anita Rani In Conversation
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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S2 EP8: Unearthing Urdu Poetry
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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S2 EP7: Val McDermid - Queen of Crime
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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S2 EP6: The Vagina Dialogues
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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S2 EP5: Dispatches from the Diaspora - Gary Younge In Conversation
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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S2 EP4 - Sebastian Faulks In Conversation
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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S2 EP3: Three Worlds - Avi Shlaim In Conversation
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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S2 EP2: Sir Michael Palin in Conversation
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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S2 EP1: Stuart Maconie - The Full English
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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S1 EP18: The Lament of the Reed
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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S1 EP17: How to Solve a Crime
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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S1 EP16: How Religion Evolved
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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S1 EP15: The Escape Artists - Jonathan Freedland In Conversation
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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S1 EP14: Inspired by the Brontës
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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S1 EP13: Confucius Says - The Man Behind the Myths
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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S1 EP12: Eyes Wide Shut
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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S1 EP11: What Does Ukraine Mean for European and Global Security?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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S1 EP10: The Last Prince of Bengal - A Family’s Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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S1 EP9: Shaykh Yahya Rhodus - Book of Contemplation
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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S1 EP8: Joanne Harris In Conversation
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May 31, 2023 |
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S1 EP7: Critical Muslim - Liberty
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May 24, 2023 |
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S1 EP6: Heavy Light - A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
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May 17, 2023 |
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S1 EP5: Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK
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May 10, 2023 |
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S1 EP4: Inspired by Tolkien
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May 03, 2023 |
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S1 EP3: The World of William Morris - Drew Pritchard & Giles Deacon
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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S1 EP2: Ukraine, Chechnya and the Fight for Freedom
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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S1 EP1: No Net Ensnares Me - Charlotte Brontë Abroad
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Apr 05, 2023 |