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February 25, 2022

Series 5

A look at the latest culture and media through the eyes of creators and audiences.

01. Women on Top

Mary Beard explores how thousands of years of stories and images stereotyping women have shaped our thinking and what this means for women who are in positions of power today.

30min
February 25, 2022

02. Back to the 90s

Whether it’s in fashion and music or on our TV and cinema screens, the 90s are well and truly back. Shahidha Bari takes a look at the reasons why.

30min
March 4, 2022

03. The Art of Crying

Mary Beard is joined by actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson to talk tears, dissecting some of Emma’s most famous on-screen weeps and explore the role that crying plays both in art and in real life.

30min
March 11, 2022

04. Can Art Save the Planet?

Shahidha Bari teams up with artists, poets, comics and musicians to investigate the role that the arts can play in exploring and processing the threat to our planet from catastrophic climate change.

30min
March 18, 2022

05. Episode 5

Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - Booker-nominated British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.

30min
March 25, 2022