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New Generation Thinkers

The Essay

Five-part series recorded at the York Festival of Ideas in which New Generation Thinkers discuss with an audience the lessons we can learn today from forgotten figures of the past.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights

All available episodes (5 total)

  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  • Watch: My Deaf World

    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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    Download all the episodes from the series and listen at your leisure.

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