Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Benjamin Britten and Radio
David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.
Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.
Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...
Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner
Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet
Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin
Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman
Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson
Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie
Matthew Sweet with an exploration of memory and Winston Graham's novel/Hitchcock's film
The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?
Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion plus the rise of small nations.
Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon
Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.
Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness
Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty
Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.
