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Odessa Stories
Linda Grant and Boris Dralyuk discuss the writer Isaac Babel with Matthew Sweet.
Windows
From Rear Window to stained glass, TB to paintings at Dulwich. Shahidha Bari hosts.
Kawanabe Ky艒sai and Yukio Mishima
Japanese cultural experimentation: painter Ky艒sai 1831-1889 and writer Mishima 1925-1970.
May Day Rituals
Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about community, collective action and May revels.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne McElvoy discusses the visionary poet with a composer and two literature experts.
Speaking Welsh
Catherine Fletcher explores the relationship between Cymru and Cymraeg - Wales and Welsh.
Teaching and Inspiration
Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.
Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?
Preserving our heritage
From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives
Housework
Gender, class and domestic tasks. Matthew pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in.
