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What stories are being uncovered by people working behind the scenes at museums and institutions? Lisa Mullen finds out talking to Tessa Jackson \u2013 Conservator;\nDavid Beavan \u2013 Senior Research Software Engineer, Turing Institute and Matt Harle \u2013 Archivist and curator at the Barbican.

Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life runs at the Hepworth Wakefield from 21 May 2021 to 27 Feb 2022. The gallery also runs a Hepworth Research Network in partnership with the Department of History of Art at the University of York and the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield.\nhttps://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/hepworth-research-network/people/

Matthew Harle is an archivist working with the Barbican as it prepares for its 40th anniversary so is assembling an archive alongside the Guildhall School of Music and Drama\nhttps://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/our-archive/about-the-archive\nhttps://matthewharle.com/Barbican-Archive

The Alan Turing Institute https://www.turing.ac.uk/ is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence running a host of research projects into topics including AI, Public Policy and Living with Machines - a project that rethinks the impact of technology on the lives of ordinary people during the Industrial Revolution.\nhttps://livingwithmachines.ac.uk You can hear more from historian Emma Griffin in this conversation about Understanding the Industrial Revolution https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081y7h4

This episode was made in partnership with the AHRC, part of UKRI.\nYou can find a playlist exploring New Research on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

Producer: Sofie Vilcins