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From lessons in civility learnt playing French board game to the value of babbling by babies in speech development, a history of central heating to the neglected industrial landscapes of the A13, Anti-Asian tropes in AI, Quaker needlework to Viking burial practices, 70\\u2019s women\\u2019s art collectives, the history of Ireland\\u2019s Magdalen laundries to the first philosophy book by a woman to be published in C17 century Germany: Chris Harding hears about the research topics of ten early career academics chosen as the 2023 New Generation Thinkers on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to promote academic research and turn it into radio broadcasts

Incidentally you can also find on BBC Sounds the set of Essays by the 2022 New Generation Thinkers and there\'s a collection of other discussions and features from New Generation Thinkers across the years on BBC Radio 3\'s Free Thinking programme website

But in this podcast Chris Harding talks to:\\nDr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester is working on a project which asks what does it mean if a human body isn\\u2019t buried and the bones are broken apart and scattered?\\nDr Andrew Cooper, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick is researching "Germany\\u2019s Mary Wollstonecraft" - Amalia Holst\\nDr Ana Baeza Ruiz, Loughborough University is conducting an oral history project looking at women\\u2019s art collectives in 1970s Britain and Ireland\\nDr Gemma Tidman, a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Queen Mary, is working on her second book, Playing on Words: A History of French Literary Play, 1635\\u20131789\\nDr Rebecca Woods, a Senior Lecturer in Language and Cognition at Newcastle University, researches how play helps language learning and the value of multi-lingualism\\nDr Dan Taylor works at the Open University. His most recent book is Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom and he\\u2019s been an advisor on a BBC-Open University co-production Union, a four-part tv series due later this year presented by David Olusoga\\nDr Sam Johnson-Schlee, from London South Bank University has been researching a history of gas heating and he\'s published a kind of domestic spaces memoir titled Living Rooms\\nDr Kerry McInerney, a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge co-hosts the Good Robots podcast and looks at anti-Asian racism in AI\\nIsabella Rosner, is a PhD student at King\\u2019s College London and presenter of the Sew What? podcast and her research looks at Quaker needlework\\nDr Louise Brangan, Chancellor\'s Fellow in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow is researching the way Ireland is now coming to terms with the impact of the Magdalene Laundries and the treatment of women and babies.

Producer: Ruth Watts