Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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John Maynard Keynes
From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes
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John Knox
A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
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John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.
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John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower
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John Cowper Powys
John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'
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John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom
Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854
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Jim Loach, Victorian Prostitutes, Mrs. Dalloway
An interview with director Jim Loach on his film Oranges and Sunshine about the as a...
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Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.
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Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness
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Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
The French film star who burst onto the scene in 1960 in Godard's Breathless
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Japan Now 2020
Philip Dodd talks to Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, Yukiko Motoya, and Motoyuki Shibata
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Japan and Nature
The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy
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Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
Two campaigning women talk to Matthew Sweet.
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James Ellroy
Philip Dodd is in conversation with the American author James Ellroy
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James Baldwin and race in USA
Rana Mitter & guests re-read James Baldwin's writing as a new US President is inaugurated
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Jacques Tati's Trafic
Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.
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Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Rescuing the Ripper's victims from the shadows of history
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Italy, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, existence
A panel of guests discuss the state of Italy, as the country marks 150 years of...
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Isolation
Matthew Sweet explores ideas about being on your own
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Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
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Is the shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China - Jung Chang and Julia Lovell.
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Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, & reporter Cindy Yu
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Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI
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Is Politics Dead?
As Europe struggles to manage the current financial crisis we are seeing un-elected...
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Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner & William Fowler.
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Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Matthew Sweet and guests on Iris Murdoch's thought and writing (15 July 1919-8 Feb 1999)
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Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
A virtual Bare Lit Festival talk, Nadifa Mohammed & Irenosen Okojie with Shahidha Bari
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Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2018
From piracy to vegetarianism, George Orwell to surrogacy, Newton's alchemy to C18 fitness
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Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
From German techno music to the Glasgow 鈥榬ag trade鈥�, divisive dams and democracy's bug
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Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023
Chris Harding meets the 10 academics who will make programmes from their research in 2023
