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ACFM: Microdose: Aliens on Screen

From Martian invaders to Mulder and Scully, our obsession with aliens says plenty about politics on Earth.

Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties

Owen Hatherley, Ash Sarkar and Juliet Jacques remember the decade that decency forgot.

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Feature: Argentina Wants to Whitewash Its Military Junta. Unfortunately, There’s Video Evidence

Juliet Jacques

After 38 years gathering dust in an archive, Ulises de la Orden has returned to the footage of the trial of Argentina’s military junta, at a time when the country most needs to see it, writes Juliet Jacques.

Novara FM: Why Posh People Have Bad Taste

Taste may be subjective, but there's no accounting for it. Critic Nathalie Olah on normcore, hoodies and the Kardashian mansion.

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Long Read: Palestinian Satirical Cinema Has the Last Laugh

Juliet Jacques

The works of Elia Suleiman and David Osit capture the numbness produced by decades of occupation and in so doing offer an antidote to it, writes Juliet Jacques.

A white man with short white hair wearing a brown sweater and striped brown and beige scarf and oval shaped glasses speaks into a shotgun microphone

Long Read: Aged 82, Patricio Guzmán Is Still Making Revolutionary Cinema

Feature: Private Companies Are Stealing Public Parks

Rivkah Brown

Across London, cash-strapped councils are signing away people’s gardens to entertainment mega-corporations – forcing small community groups to take action. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Opinion: Why Is Tristram Hunt Afraid of Trans Books?

Vic Parsons

The ex-Labour MP turned V&A director removed three works about trans people from the museum. It’s giving Section 28, argues Vic Parsons.

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Report: Barbican Forced to Apologise for Silencing Palestinians

Rivkah Brown

BREAKING: The Barbican cultural centre has apologised after one of its staffers advised a Palestinian speaker to avoid talking at length about Palestine – an intervention it has since described as “unacceptable”. Rivkah Brown reports.

Downstream: This Man Predicted the Future. Aaron Bastani Meets Peter Turchin

History is not just one thing after another. Historians spend lifetimes figuring out how X event in medieval France impacted Y event in 20th century Polynesia – but none of these historians have truly ‘done the math’ like this week’s guest. Coming from a background in applied mathematics, Peter Turchin has gathered an unprecedented amount […]