Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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African Empire Stories
Petina Gappah & Sarah LeFanu on Livingstone, Kipling and Mary Kingsley in Africa
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Africa Babel China
Histories of West Africa, 20th c China, art of translation
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Advertising & Artemisia
Considering how women have shaped art and advertising and new feminist writing in Korea.
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Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ren茅e Vivien & Violette Leduc
Fiona Sampson, Peggy Reynolds and Anne McElvoy talk poetry and writing personal stories
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Aditya Chakrabortty
Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society.
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Adapting Moli猫re
Liz Lochead is one of Anne McElvoy's guests discussing how to update the French dramatist
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Adam Smith
From the East India Company to Silicon Valley: the big ideas in his tercentennial year
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A Sentimental Journey
Se谩n Williams rereads Laurence Sterne's subjective travel book & talks to Philip Hensher
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A pinch of salt
A key preservative, the subject of taxes, a danger to plant-life - how much salt is good?
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A lively Tudor world
From needlework to marriage portraits to depicting music on the page
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A Literary Salon.
Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper and Jake Arnott join Matthew Sweet.
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A Feminist Take on Medieval History
How does Chaucer write about rape and consent ? Shahidha Bari with new academic research.
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A family of witches
Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.
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A city is not a park but should it be?
A short talk at the Free Thinking Festival from New Generation Thinker Des Fitzgerald.
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A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris
Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.
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2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Prehistory with Mike Pitts & Renee So, plus Alex Clark & Tinuke Craig
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20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.
Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.
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1922:Food fads
John Gallagher talks to Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson about iguana soup and protein bars
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1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the All England Club's move to a new home
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1922: Wimbledon
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the All England Club's move to a new home.
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1922: The Lincoln Memorial
Why was Lincoln the president the nation chose to commemorate in 1922?
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1922: The Hollywood Bowl
From a series of starlit concerts in the 20s to America's principle outdoor concert venue
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1922: The Hollywood Bowl
From a season of starlit concerts in 1922 to the USA鈥檚 principal outdoor concert venue
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1922: Reader's Digest
The "agreggator" of stories - we look at how it launched and revolutionised reading
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1922: Reader's Digest
The "agreggator" of trending stories of its day - how a magazine revolutionised reading.
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1922: Nanook of the North
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough looks at this ground-breaking documentary about Arctic life.
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1922: Leisure and the body
From surfing to weight lifting, 20s style
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1922: Leisure and Sport
From Agatha Christie surfing to weight-lifting '20s style. John Gallagher looks at sports
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1922: Food
John Gallagher explores eating fads in the 1920s with Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson
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1922: Allotments
John Gallagher investigates the Allotments Act of 1922
