Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Royalty, art and patronage.
Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty
Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars
Lucy Porter & Steve Massa on women of the silent era, Vanda Krefft on William Fox's life
Frankenstein and AI now.
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston with Matthew Sweet.
French writing and politics
Le茂la Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed
Australian novelist Peter Carey.
A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales
Counterculture and Protest
Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo & Paul Cronin on uprisings.
The In Between
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces
Landmark: The Odyssey
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd
Diving Deep
Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present
The Invention of the Circus Ring
Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of circus
