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From clues in paintings to colonial trade to letters sent between Australia and England; the links between a Durham based poet and India to the female singers and dancers from Latin America who were contemporaries of Picasso and Josephine Baker; the significance of the Cyrillic alphabet in building nations to why we should pay attention to brackets, commas and colons: African film and ideas about empire to depictions of Iran in nineteenth century French literature and art; how activism affects our view of art to law and the transatlantic slave trade: New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen talks to the ten academics whose ideas will become programmes for BBC Radio 3 as we introduce the 2021 New Generation Thinkers on the scheme run in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Dr Julia Hartley, University of Warwick\nDr Florence Hazrat, University of Sheffield\nDr Mirela Ivanova, University of Oxford\nSarah Jilani, University of Cambridge\nDr Jake Morris-Campbell, Newcastle University\nAdjoa Osei, University of Liverpool\nDr Jake Richards, London School of Economics\nDr Fariha Shaikh, University of Birmingham\nDr Vid Simoniti, University of Liverpool\nDr Lauren Working, University of Oxford

Producer: Ruth Watts

You can find a playlist featuring discussions, essays and features made by the hundred New Generation Thinkers over ten years of the scheme on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08zhs35