Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Flooding and Energy
Can old field names and labelling energy sources help us cope better with climate change?
Soho
130 acres of central London synonymous with sex and shadiness immortalised in film
Mental Health
Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.
Odessa Stories
Matthew Sweet explores the work of Soviet Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel
Pause for Thought
From the bracket & exclamation mark to emojis - Florence Hazrat's history of punctuation
Opium Tales
Ways of seeing the trade triangle from Confessions of an Opium Eater to modern novels.
New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians
Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander "the Great".
Windows
From Rear Window to stained glass, TB to paintings at Dulwich: Shahidha Bari hosts.
Kawanabe Ky艒sai and Yukio Mishima
Japanese cultural experimentation: painter, Ky艒sai 1831-1889 & writer, Mishima 1925-1970
A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris
Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.
