Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Childhood and play
The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak

New Thinking: women and football
Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football

South Asia: poverty and princes
Historians Joya Chatterji and Tripurdaman Singh, plus the novels of Kamala Markandaya

Liverpool Biennial + art at MIF
Catherine Fletcher and 3 Biennial artists. Vid Simoniti visits Economics the Blockbuster

A lively Tudor world
From needlework to marriage portraits to depicting music on the page

New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS
New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing

New Thinking: Children and health
What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?

New Thinking: health inequalities
Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues

New Thinking: Design and health
From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition

New Thinking: Writing the NHS
Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing