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Sleep justice and sleeplessness
Laurence Scott talks to researchers exploring how we sleep and the idea of sleep justice

Images of Persia
Poetry by Hafez, Nowruz (New Year) and the Haft Sin table, the Mongol invasion, music

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the 1974 Gene Hackman film about surveillance and murder

Muses and women's creativity
From Pre-Raphaelite models to the daughter of Maud Gonne: Naomi Paxton with new research

Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress
Ahead of International Women's Day Shahidha Bari hears stories linking women with war

The Dutch Connection
John Gallagher hears about new research into Anglo-Dutch trade and early publishing

Hitchhiking
Matthew Sweet considers examples from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to a system of Polish tokens

New Thinking: Stitching Stories
Shahidha Bari visits a textile art show + research on embroidery, stage outfits, vintage

Can - Future Days
Matthew Sweet and guests take a deep dive into the influential German group's 1973 album.

Myths, ships and history
Anna McKay, Lloyd Belton and Oliver Finnegan delve in the deep for seafaring histories