Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university

The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy

American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman plus the careers picked by psychopaths.

Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.

Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.

Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall
The landscape of an artist’s imagination plus how mountaineering inspired a physicist

The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
Rana Mitter and the 6 shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy

In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)
Novelist Philip Roth talks to Philip Dodd about his life and work. (R3 Night Waves 2008)

Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

Jordan B Peterson
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets the YouTube star.