Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Building Bridges and Other Megastructures
Writer Erica Wagner, engineer Sean Wilkinson & architect Simon Roberts with Rana Mitter.
#Speaking Up
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,Afua Hirsch & Tarjinder Gill debate identity with Philip Dodd.
Mass Hysterics
Comedians Alexei Sayle, Jen Brister & Sanjeev Kohli join Matthew Sweet at Sage Gateshead
Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?
June Sarpong, Emma Frankland, Gavin Francis and Julian Baggini chaired by Anne McElvoy.
Free Thinking Essay: What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.
Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns
Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.
Rethinking Civilisations
David Olusoga, Kit Davies and Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd
Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.
Gangs, the Usual Suspects
Symeon Brown, James Docherty, Alistair Fraser chaired by Matthew Sweet.
Power to the People?
David Runciman, Rod Liddle, Caroline MacFarland Danny Dorling & Anne McElvoy in Gateshead
