Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region
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The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region
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The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
Matthew Sweet with Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and John Cook
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The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.
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The Avengers
Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of The Avengers, 50...
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The Actors' Guide to the Emotions
From David Garrick to Sting's musical The Last Ship - how do actors convey emotion.
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The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
New takes on Chaucer, the Bible and African trading from 3 of the historians shortlisted.
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The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi
From Indian cricket, a survey of the oceans to Jack the Ripper: 3 shortlisted historians.
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The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Who decides what鈥檚 worth saving and what is culturally significant to protect in wartime?
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The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
Rana Mitter and the 6 shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy
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The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
Matthew Sweet on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Carnap and other philosophical greats
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Testosterone. The grey zone. Indian science.
Jahnavi Phalkey, Matt Kimberley, Richard Fortey, Adrian Owen & Cordelia Fine.
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Teaching and Inspiration
Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.
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Tattoos
Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.
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Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
Tartan at V&A Dundee, RL Stevenson's Kidnapped on stage, the Highland Book prize 2022
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Tariq Ali
Rana Mitter talks to Tariq Ali, novelist, historian & political activist about 1968.
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Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari
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Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall
The landscape of an artist鈥檚 imagination plus how mountaineering inspired a physicist
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Syria: hope and poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst
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Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
How knowledge of poets鈥� lives shapes how we view their work; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised 19th c Redcoat
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Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change.
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Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng
Anne McElvoy discusses maths and music with Mathematician Eugenia Cheng.
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Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
Matthew Sweet on surveillance capitalism, The Third Man, and Stieg Larsson's obsessions
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Suits. Neil LaBute
Shahidha Bari explores the history of suits with Anne McElvoy. Plus dramatist Neil LaBute
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Sugar
Matthew Sweet examines how sugar built the modern world
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Street Culture, Protests, Food.
Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.
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Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War Two refugees.
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Stories of Love
Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming of age tale Rubyfruit Jungle
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Stonehenge history
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths
