Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
James Baldwin and race in USA
Rana Mitter & guests re-read James Baldwin's writing as a new US President is inaugurated
Harlots & 18th Century Working Women
History & Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold & Moira Buffini on the C18th sex worker TV drama
Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
Conjuring fear, discussed by historians and by novelists Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden
New Thinking: Women and Slavery
Research on women owners, women on plantations, and the daughter of a slave trader
Autism, film and patterns
From Rain Man to Atypical - Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life
New Thinking: Aphra Behn
John Gallagher's guests decode changes in Behn's loyalties from her plays and dedications
Dostoevsky
Rana Mitter explores Dostoevsky as a thriller writer and comedian
Mildred Pierce
James M Cain's classic novel and its film adaptation discussed by Matthew Sweet & guests
Marlene Dietrich
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich from Europe to Hollywood.
Winter Light
From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars & Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.
