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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Are we being manipulated?

    Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders

  2. Are we all American now?

    3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter

  3. Are We Afraid of Being Alone?

    Sara Maitland, Lionel Shriver, and John-Henry Clay explore solitude.

  4. Are the arts saving Margate?

    Investigating regeneration and gentrification in the new arts hub.

  5. Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales

    From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real

  6. Approaches to death

    Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper

  7. Appeasement

    How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?

  8. Anxiety and the Teenage Brain

    Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.

  9. Anxiety

    Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist H茅ctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.

  10. Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden

    Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of writers about routines & knowing how to start and stop.

  11. Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science

    Anne Enright discusses a new anthology on Irish short stories, film critic David on of...

  12. Anne Enright + the value of gossip

    Anne Enright discusses acting with Daisy Black, Emily Butterworth and Marie Le Conte.

  13. Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland

    Politics and friendship and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

  14. Anna Kavan

    Matthew Sweet reads Ice and other works of this experimental writer who died in 1968

  15. Anger.

    Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India

  16. Ancient wisdom & remote living

    From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples & the resilience of island life

  17. Anarchism and David Graeber

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of American anthropologist (1961-2020).

  18. An insider's view of war

    Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents

  19. Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.

    Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction

  20. Am铆lcar Cabral

    Rana Mitter and guests discuss the pan-Africanist poet and anti-colonial leader.

  21. Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy

    The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.

  22. American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.

    Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman plus the careers picked by psychopaths.

  23. America: Inequality & Race

    Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.

  24. Amanda Foreman, Fintan O'Toole & Alasdair Gray

    The Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole talks to Philip Dodd. Amanda Foreman discusses on...

  25. Alternative Realities

    Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life changing experiences & the fourth dimension

  26. Altered States

    Matthew Sweet and guests knock on the doors of perception

  27. All we need is love

    Susie Orbach, Armand D'Angour, Vittoria Fallanca, Mary Harrod and Catherine Wheatley.

  28. Alison Bechdel

    American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich

  29. Alice and Dreaming

    Alice is asked in Wonderland, Why is a raven like a writing desk? Salman Rushdie explains

  30. Alexander the Great

    Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander

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