Celebrating Black History Month with a curated playlist exploring Black history
William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.
Author Zadie Smith talks about dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences.
Including the art of the black power movement and the history of racist ideas in the US.
David Olusoga, Kit Davies and Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd.
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.
Anne McElvoy looks at the career of Botswana's most influential writer.
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics, religion and writing with Philip Dodd
With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.
Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.
Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.
With Guy Gunaratne, Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri and Deena Mohamed.
Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.
Matthew Sweet and guests are upstairs and downstairs in the stately home.
Petina Gappah and Sarah LeFanu on Livingstone, Kipling and Mary Kingsley in Africa.
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and geneticist Adam Rutherford join Rana Mitter.
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright & Shawn Sobers join Eleanor Barraclough.
New takes on Chaucer, the Bible and African trading from 3 of the historians shortlisted.
Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of authors about the writing life. Plus a musical monument.
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.
Peter Frankopan, and Maya Jasanoff, winner of the world's richest prize for history.
Incl a Welsh castle w/ more Mughal Art than India's National Museum - a new UK poem map
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on black Britain.
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike and Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's life and work.
