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Dark Blossoms

The Essay

Dipping into some of the darker sides of Japan's epic 20th century, Chris Harding explores the lives of people who always had doubts about 'modernity' and the mainstream.

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Japan Refusal

All available episodes (5 total)

  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  • Watch: My Deaf World

    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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