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Landladies
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

Bestiaries and Beyond
Shahidha Bari investigates the human invention of animals

Lists
Are lists a good way of organising chaos? Lisa Mullen and guests discuss

Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

Trapeze acts and circus celebrities
Shahidha Bari hears about the aerialists Lillian Leitzel and Pablo Fanque.

New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us
From Lancashire dialect protest poetry to Hardy's Dorset vowels. John Gallagher hosts.

How do we look at Art?
Catherine Fletcher with Vid Simoniti; Cleo Hanaway-Oakley; Lamin Fofana and Sally Booth

Soil, Chickens and City Farms
Ahead of world soil day, Anne McElvoy looks at changes to both rural and urban farming.

Star Trek
Matthew Sweet with George Takei, Naomi Alderman, Una McCormack and José-Antonio Orosco

Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz & Lucy Bolton join Matthew Sweet to look at this 1966 film.