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On this week’s archive edition we return to 2013 and director Clio Barnard's reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s famous fairy tale – The Selfish Giant.

In this archive episode we return to an interview with actor and director Desiree Akhavan, speaking to her in detail about her film The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

We invited multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Rachel Aggs to write about Highlife music.

To mark 40 years since we first opened our doors, we've created a digital time capsule. What's inside? Only one way to find out...

To coincide with Out and About! with the Bishopsgate Institute LGBT+ archive, we've selected 40 anthems which have been embraced by the LGBT+ community over the past 40 years - one track for each year from 1982 to 2022... 

This week we have a live recording of Can we be artists?, a bold panel discussion we hosted in collaboration with Headway East London. 

In this edition we uncover the story of the most controversial whistle-blower of the 21st Century – Edward Snowden.

We're turning 40! Take a look over the last four decades as we explore our history with a cut-and-paste journey as seen in news, music videos, TV dramas and motion pictures.

Writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques looks back on the impact of Transfabulous, a legendary series of events for the transgender community, which ran up until 2012.

On this edition we journey into the cinematic storytelling of filmmaker Sebastián Lelio with the bold and beautiful Oscar nominated A Fantastic Woman and its follow up Disobedience, a powerful drama about faith and love.

Who decides what art is? We're taking a look back at our panel talk, Can we be artists? with our community collaborator Headway East London.

In this special podcast collaboration, The Log Books' Tash and Adam take a closer look at some of the objects in our Out and About exhibition, and what they tell us about LGBT+ life in London over the past 40 years - and today.