Culture

Liz Bates explains how what started as a slogan has now become important enough to have its own government department. 

Removing the Queen as head of state is seen as the final step for Barbados in cutting ties with its colonial past, a past haunted by nearly 200 years of brutal enslavement. 

Benjamin talks to Krishnan about ‘that’ Ted talk, why he thinks we need a new language and why he thinks universal collaboration is of utmost importance.

Steven joins Krishnan to discuss his new book, ‘Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems scarce, Why It Matters’ which is billed as a user’s guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason.

Jools tells Krishnan all about how the piano changed his life, sparking a lifelong love affair with music and tells him about how his dancing dog inspired a track on his new album.

“I’ve always been ambitious to change the way British art galleries are,” says the artist Lubaina Himid, the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize four years ago. 

In Glasgow, the COP26 climate conference has been hearing the angry voices of young people, thousands of whom marched through the city today. 

With the world leaders now gone, discussions are spreading across Glasgow, including this building, which is host to the New York Times Climate Hub, where we are an affiliate broadcaster.

Yuval talks to Krishnan about where racism comes from, what the recipe for a dictatorship is and why we should be very careful about how we used artificial intelligence.  

Shon talks to Krishnan about how the liberation of Trans people would benefit everyone in society, the problems with the ‘debate’ about Trans people in the media and how transitioning saved her life.

The actor David Harewood has spoken and written before of his experience of being sectioned in his early 20s after an episode of psychosis. 

Steve talks top Krishnan about how The Beatles had a profound effect on the course of his career and how he has used his music to influence politics and social affairs.

Lady Hale speaks to Krishnan about that famous judicial moment, the challenges she has faced in her career and the need to widen access to justice. 

Their music was the soundtrack to the post-punk movement that began in the late 70s – the fight against racism, against war and apartheid, and the bleak reality of unemployment and social inequality.  

Thousands of Afghans who’ve fled the Taliban takeover are starting new lives, many of them here in the UK.