Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart
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Caribbean art
As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post war writing and art
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Can We Stop the Mania for Change?
Philip Dodd chairs a debate on the obsession with change, at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Free 2011...
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Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?
June Sarpong, Emma Frankland, Gavin Francis and Julian Baggini chaired by Anne McElvoy.
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Can - Future Days
Matthew Sweet and guests take a deep dive into the influential German group's 1973 album.
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Can - Future Days
Matthew Sweet and guests take a deep dive into the influential German group's 1973 album.
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Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism
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Call Me Mother
How the shape of words for mother helps babies eat their food. Rebecca Woods explains
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Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.
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Caesar, Hogarth and images of power
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard, artist Ali Cherri and looks at Hogarth's art.
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Byron, celebrity and fan mail
Would Byron have embraced Twitter?
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Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?
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Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys
A look at Butlins at 75 with Roy Hudd and Martin Parr, an interview with Werner Egan...
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Busking and Billy Waters
The early 19th century street performer Billy Waters, Streetwise Opera and street ballads
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Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.
From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community & the 29 bus route
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Burns the Radical; Exploration
Humboldt as Ecuadorian explorer, plus the territory between Scotland and England.
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Building London
Eric Parry & Alison Brooks; writers Fiona Mozley & SI Martin; pianist Belle Chen
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Building Bridges and Other Megastructures
Writer Erica Wagner, engineer Sean Wilkinson & architect Simon Roberts with Rana Mitter.
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Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon
Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 film that made Bruce Lee an international star
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British New Wave Films of the '60s
Matthew Sweet on the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey and The Knack.
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British Conceptual Art.
Philip Dodd talks to artist Bruce McLean about British Conceptual Art on show at Tate.
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British Academy Book Prize 2022
Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
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Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Hannah Greig
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Breathe
Soweto Kinch, James Nestor, and Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture
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Breaking Down the Barriers
The cultural contribution of Muslim women and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane
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Breakfast
Literally "breaking the fast" - Matthew Sweet moves from the Full English to Tiffany's.
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Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing + Stevie's Smith's writing
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Boyhood to manhood
Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now
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Boredom
Time and the value of doing nothing
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Borders: On the ground, on the map, in the mind
From Ireland to Turkey, from soldiering to walking to photographing - with Anne McElvoy.