Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Reflecting Rural Life
Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.
Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf
Human Beings are part of Natural History discuss: via art, science and the Bloosmbury set
How Big Should the State Be?
David Willetts, Polly Toynbee, Simone Finn, Julia Black & Adrian Wooldridge at LSE.
Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe
Philip Dodd talks to Michael Ignatieff about the political landscape of central Europe.
Tariq Ali
Rana Mitter talks to Tariq Ali, novelist, historian & political activist about 1968.
Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
Single motherhood, child slavery & parallels w/ Grenfell in the books of Buchi Emecheta
Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids
Anne McElvoy on Davos discussions, Ocean liner style at the V&A and mermaids in fiction.
The Working Class in Culture
Philip Dodd and guests ask has culture forgotten the working class?
Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.
Burns the Radical; Exploration
Humboldt as Ecuadorian explorer, plus the territory between Scotland and England.
