Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Dante's visions
Art historian Martin Kemp, painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website
Saint John Henry Newman
Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster, Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought
Revisit Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos, Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade
Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement
Sonia Boyce, Harold Offeh, Isaac Julien and Eddie Chambers talk to Anne McElvoy
Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
The weird world of teenage girls seeking fame, plus the city in fiction and photography.
Revisit Rash艒mon
David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Jasper Sharp & Yuna Tasaka on the film + the book behind it
Bette Davis
As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star
Green Thinking: Food
How can we make food and farming more sustainable?
Connecting with nature
Music from thunder, art inspired by a dog walk,essays about a rural wood and a city field
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tom McCarthy and others join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'
