Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
Can one book solve all the problems of philosophy?
Fashion, Art, and the Body
Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter, and Ekow Eshun join Shahidha Bari
Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
Was Nero really a victim of plots? Bulgaria's hidden past. Plus a novel about startups.
Who needs critics?
Matthew Sweet questions the critic's role while Vid Simoniti looks at algorithms and art.
Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
Breaking the silence: filmmakers, a novelist and historian on the recent Spanish past.
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
Rana Mitter meets the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize
Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
Anne McElvoy explores the past and present of the transcontinental nation of Egypt
New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
Lisa Mullen explores the way data can change our view of history & looks at conservation.
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
The two weavers of fantastical fiction sift through myths with Matthew Sweet.
Alison Bechdel
American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich
