Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Bureaucracies of the soul satirised in novels. Matthew Sweet's guests include Lea Ypi.
Libraries
From Alexandria to Mid Wales, Laurence Scott and guests look at library history.
Lorca
As the National Theatre stages The House of Bernarda Alba, Rana Mitter discusses Lorca
AS Byatt and The Children's Book
AS Byatt discussed her writing life with Matthew Sweet as she published a novel in 2009
Post-War Germany
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of WW2
Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
Selvon's evocative 1956 novel discussed at the British Library by Shahidha Bari & guests.
New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture
Kathleen Collins鈥� film scripts and women sculptors working in wax
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and others discuss the politics of this 1973 fable
Women, art and activism
Naomi Paxton and guests on exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Barbican and Modern Art Oxford
