Culture
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Personality
Why one man spent 15 years in ‘self-imposed’ island exile
7 minutes
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Home
Whether above a pub or in a castle, our childhood homes leave an indelible mark
15 minutes
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Teaching and learning
Ronald grew up in a New York City library. It was as strange and wondrous as it sounds
3 minutes
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Subcultures
Living off-grid on a remote Scottish island is a mix of rejection and acceptance
13 minutes
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Rituals and celebrations
From roaring fire and molten glass an artist creates a healing ritual
13 minutes
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Art
An ageing artist’s unguarded thoughts on what it takes to be great – and why he lacks it
12 minutes
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History
Slavery en famille
The story of Marie Aymard and five generations of her family tells an intimate history of slavery in a small French town
Emma Rothschild
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Anthropology
On the run from COVID-19, an Indigenous family treks deep into the Amazon rainforest
17 minutes
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Human rights and justice
The buzzes, clanks and whirrs of prison life form a meditation on freedom
17 minutes
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Home
The rhythms of rural Thailand, where both food and music are sourced from the ground
15 minutes
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Architecture
Cultural wisdom begets cozy temporary homes for the Nenets of the Siberian Arctic
32 minutes
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Home
Eccentrics, artists and Luddites find community on a remote Scottish peninsula
26 minutes
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Home
How our rooms shape our world, and vice versa
3 minutes
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Love and friendship
Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders
5 minutes
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Architecture
A world of shacks and shanties is a place of makeshift beauty on England’s margins
12 minutes
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Gender
Angels in the market
The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there
Ellen Wayland-Smith
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Cities
Sketches from a Barcelona square offer an elegant celebration of people-watching
5 minutes
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Home
A street-level view of homelessness from a woman living through it
11 minutes
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Architecture
The best home is a joyfully inhabited one – doubly so if its residents are design legends
11 minutes
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Nature and landscape
How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp
Harriet Gross
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Art
Ways of living
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ exploded a discipline. But his greatest legacy might be a quieter project of re-enchantment
Joshua Sperling
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Beauty and aesthetics
Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas
Amy Olberding
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Animals and humans
It’s poultry vs people in this darkly comic tale of a problematic pet rooster
13 minutes
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Poverty and development
In Silicon Valley’s shadow, a boy bids farewell to the trailer community that’s been home
12 minutes