Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Green Thinking: Weather
What can we learn from how people responded to extreme weather events in the past?
Breathe
Soweto Kinch, James Nestor, and Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture
Green Thinking: Festivals
Des Fitzgerald hears how festivals can reduce their ecological footprint
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between mining, the arts, and culture
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Matthew Sweet excavates the culture and arts of mining
Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran + why people abandon cities.
The English country house party
Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama
New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems
Sandeep Parmar talks to poets Kayo Chingonyi, Paisley Rekdal and Nasser Hussain
Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities
Earthscrapers and subterranean transport - do greener cities need to go underground?
