Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

The Generation Gap
Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoyé talk family histories with Matthew Sweet

The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.

Climate change, nature and art
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.

Perfecting The Body
Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Harry Parker & Xine Yao discuss

New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets
A computer game for cystic fibrosis patients to improve breathing

Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history
Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about friends in an age of upheaval

Artists' models and fame
Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's woman in white, new radio ballads : Shahidha Bari hosts.

Hitchhiking
Matthew Sweet and guests consider hitchiking in culture and around the globe.

China, Freud, war and sci fi
From AI & fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.

Stonehenge history
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths