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Penelope Lively

Novelist Penelope Lively gives her thoughts on writing fiction as one becomes older.

• 15 mins

Luther's Reformation Gang

Martin Luther

Lyndal Roper profiles the father of the Reformation, Martin Luther.

• 15 mins

Luther's Reformation Gang

Thomas Muntzer

Andy Drummond profiles Thomas Muntzer, the failed revolutionary of the Reformation.

• 15 mins

Luther's Reformation Gang

Katharina von Bora

Charlotte Woodford on the contribution of Katharina Von Bora to Luther's Reformation.

• 15 mins

Luther's Reformation Gang

Johann Walther

Dr Stephen Rose discusses Johann Walther, the man behind Luther's musical Reformation.

• 15 mins

Luther's Reformation Gang

Philip Melanchthon

Brian Cummings tells the story of Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther's right-hand man.

• 15 mins

True Venetian

Making up the City

Polly Coles on Venetian artists who have engaged with their home in a modern spirit.

• 14 mins

True Venetian

True Venetian Islanders

How the geography of Venice has allowed segregated and separate communities to evolve.

• 14 mins

True Venetian

Import/Export

Polly Coles discusses Venice and ideas of flight, exile, discrimination and art.

• 14 mins

True Venetian

Exhibitions and Exhibitionism

Polly Coles discusses the work of the many Venetian artists revitalising the city today.

• 14 mins

True Venetian

Women's Work

Focusing on the numerous female artisans who once serviced the Venetian textile industry.

• 14 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book: Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn talks about translation and writing a book that has been written before.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Philippe Sands

International lawyer and author Philippe Sands explains how he writes a book.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Sarah Harper

Gerontologist and ageing expert Sarah Harper talks about the accessibility of academia.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Dr Martin Johnes

Dr Martin Johnes discusses the art of making statistics and figures worth reading.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Scarlett Thomas

At 2017's Hay Festival, author Scarlett Thomas talks about how to write a book.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Marcel Duchamp

Heather Jones on the war connections and controversy around Marcel Duchamp's work Fountain

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Gertrude Bell

Tarek Osman considers the writing of Gertrude Bell.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times

Joanna Bourke on Siegfried Sassoon and his celebrated protest against the conflict.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Mata Hari's Final Performance

Elif Shafak on the elaborate and provocative performances and photo shoots of Mata Hari.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump

Santanu Das explores the poetic world of Bristol-born Isaac Rosenberg.

• 15 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding

Corin Throsby explores attitudes towards breastfeeding.

• 18 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

A Focus on Fasting

Christopher Kissane from the London School of Economics explores the history of fasting.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

Resisting Tyranny

Jonathan Healey on changing ways of resistance to state control and prevailing ideology.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

A Tale of Restoration Murder, Barbarous and Inhumane

Tom Charlton explores press reporting, scandal and politics in the 17th century.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

Dining with the Nightmare

Daisy Hay on the role in the history of English Romanticism of publisher Joseph Johnson.

• 14 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

The Boys

Simon Callow on Micheal MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards, founders of Dublin's Gate Theatre.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

Writer Stella Duffy on growing up as a lesbian in New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

WH Auden and Chester Kallman

Gregory Woods on the tumultuous but enduring relationship of WH Auden and Chester Kallman.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

The Loves of Elizabeth Bishop

Neel Mukherjee explores the two great loves of American poet Elizabeth Bishop's life.

• 15 mins