In the 2025 Reith lectures on BBC Radio 4, Rutger Bregman argues that small groups of individuals can have an outsize influence and he looks to examples in history from suffragism to the ending of ...

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The director opens up about sexuality, intuitive filmmaking, patriarchal pressures and how her sensual debut gives voice to ...

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