Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
Girl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason
New Thinking: Exploring the local
New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari
Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal
Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today
Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
What does feminist art mean?
Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement
New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
