Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England

The Forgotten German Princess
The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.

Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure

Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
The man who loved our trees and woods and new ideas of what they were and might become

Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
Colin Grant Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari

The Word For World Is Forest
Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel + Paul Foot Award.

The Piano and Love
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.

Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
Philip Dodd explores the Intellectual Dark Web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray + Ed Husain

Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.
Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs to rethink + Gulzaar Barn on medical trials

The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President
Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.