Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Oxford Philosophy
The influence of J.L. Austin, Gilbert Ryle, Elizabeth Anscombe and later Derek Parfit
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Out of Control?
Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.
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Our Relationship with Animals: Will Abberley, Chris Packham, Helen Pilcher, Alan Hook
Shahidha Bari looks at computing for cats, de-extinction and an animal symphony.
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Oscars 2019
Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists
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Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars
Lucy Porter & Steve Massa on women of the silent era, Vanda Krefft on William Fox's life
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Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.
Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision & how our own is shaping up.
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Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
The Nobel Prize winning novelist is joined by academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria
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Order & Chaos
Clutter, indexes, and jazz improvisation. Ruth Ozeki and others join Shahidha Bari
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Opium Tales
Ways of seeing the trade triangle from Confessions of an Opium Eater to modern novels.
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On The Silver Globe
Take a mind-bending trip to a distant planet with Andrzej Zulawski's cult 1987 SF film
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Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
The man who loved our trees and woods and new ideas of what they were and might become
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Oliver Postgate
Matthew Sweet & Daniel Postgate, musicians Sandra Kerr & Neil Brand, critic Samira Ahmed
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Oliver Postgate
Matthew Sweet and guests on the creator of children's TV classics including The Clangers.
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Odessa Stories
Matthew Sweet explores the work of Soviet Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel
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Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma
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Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 that uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma
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Oceans, art and pacific poetry
From coral reef sculptures to creation sagas of Australia and attitudes to land and sea.
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Oceans and the Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival
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Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
Was Nero really a victim of plots? Bulgaria's hidden past. Plus a novel about startups.
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Notebooks and new technology
Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington
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Not Quite Jean Muir
How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills?
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Not Quite Jean Muir
How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills
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Northern Ireland
Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers
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Nightwaves
Anne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book a...
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Night Waves: The Pursuit Of Happiness
Anne McElvoy examines whether we place too much weight on happiness as a measure of of...
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Night Waves: The English and Christianity, Four Horsemen, Miro Exhibition, Antarctica
Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Anne McElvoy about why he believes that Christianity the...
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Night Waves: Miss Fortune, Jerry White, Lloyd Newson, Museum Narration
Samira Ahmed is joined by Helen Wallace to review the UK premiere of composer Judith...
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Night Waves: Margaret Thatcher
Since her death on the 8th April, Baroness Thatcher has been lauded as the greatest of...
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Night Waves: Going Dark, Disaster, Russell Banks, Bel Ami
Susannah Clapp reviews a new play Going Dark running at the Young Vic Theatre.
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Night Waves: Eve Arnold, Khodorkovsky, Beauty in Evolution, Raspberry Pi
Anne McElvoy talks to Eamon McCabe about the late photographer Eve Arnold, the German...
