Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Fashion, Art, and the Body
Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter, and Ekow Eshun join Shahidha Bari
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Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns
Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes
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Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history
Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing
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Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us
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Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
Lauren Working explores the Cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles
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Fashion Stories: Body Armour
Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies
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Family ties and reshaping history
From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of 鈥榃EIRD鈥� people, 3 authors look at kin
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Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
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Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator
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Failure and female friendship
Lara Feigel, Mich猫le Roberts & New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza with Shahidha Bari
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Facing Facts
From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces
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Facing Facts
From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces
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Facing Facts
From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces
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Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
Rana Mitter looks at the ideologies surrounding climate disaster
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Experimental writing
Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton
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Existential Risk
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests
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Evidence
Lord Sumption, Danny Robins, Dr Sarah Dillon Dr Jonathan Egid and Dr Anthony Milligan
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Evelyn Waugh.
Bryony Lavery, Alexander Waugh, Philip Eade and Adam Mars-Jones celebrate Evelyn Waugh
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Europe
Ece Temelkuran, Ben Judah, Misha Glenny and Timothy Garton Ash with Rana Mitter at Hay
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ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician
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ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the life of the German Romantic who died 25 June 1822.
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Essex
Looking beyond the stereotypes of the county that's often described as 'much maligned'.
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Essay writing
From Montaigne to modern Scottish writing - Rana Mitter discusses what makes a good Essay
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Essay - The Magic Years
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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Escapism
Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape
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Epistemic Injustice
Shahidha Bari investigates how theory of knowledge can address real world problems
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Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran + why people abandon cities.
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Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk
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Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands
Marie Darrieussecq, Lisa Mullen, Dafydd Daniel on magic and dystopias with Matthew Sweet.
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Empathy
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey & AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.
