蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Fungi: An Alien Encounter

Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.

Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull

Two Buddhist scholars and the socialist feminist historian join Rana Mitter

Matthew Sweet and guests look at The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921) and witches now

Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr, Germaine Greer v Norman Mailer: Have debates changed?

Prize winning films about migration, autism, Colombians, farming and children born of war

Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.

The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel

As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post war writing and art

Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.