Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Designing the future
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.
What is Speech?
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox
Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing
Out of Control?
Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.
Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.
Marxism
Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.
America: Inequality & Race
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
Tokyo Idols and Urban life.
Tomouki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.
Landmark: Rash艒mon
David Peace & Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
