Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi
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Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
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Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
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Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.
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Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
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Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922
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Blackmail & Shame
Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film
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Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley
We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 in...
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Black British History
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain
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Black Atlantic
Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller
We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German and...
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Billy Wilder
Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot
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Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade
Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the of and...
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Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski
Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet
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Bette Davis
As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star
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Betrayal
Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal
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Bestiaries and Beyond
Shahidha Bari investigates the human invention of animals
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Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Anne McElvoy looks at the career of Botswana's most influential writer.
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Beryl Vertue
Matthew Sweet meets the Sherlock producer and ex agent of Tony Hancock who has turned 90
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Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
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Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
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Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university
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Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Tom Smith's essay on early pioneers of Berlin's music scene and arguments about whiteness
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Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Tom Smith looks at the early pioneers of this music scene & arguments about whiteness now
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Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
Sarah Jilani on Latife Tekin’s magical realist novel about 1960’s Istanbul shanty towns.
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Benjamin Britten and Radio
David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.
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Belonging
A teacher's view, a Frankenstein-inspired ballet, outside status and circus paintings
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Belonging
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards
