Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Toys
How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.
Christopher Logue's War Music
Shahidha Bari and guests read this version of 蜜芽传媒r's Illiad and look at Logue's language
Romanian history and literature
Novelists Mircea C膬rt膬rescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration
From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.
Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Ahead of a performance at the London Jazz Festival, what history underpins the album?
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?
New Thinking: Being Human 2021
Research into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.
Green Thinking: Climate Justice
What we learn from involving communities experiencing the sharp end of climate change.
Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees
Is climate change really causing people to flee their homes?
