Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Matthew Sweet on charity shops, 'stuff', musical typewriters and the Being Human Festival
Billy Wilder
Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.
War in fact and fiction
Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
Shahidha Bari discuss the audience in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests
Individualism and Community
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA, carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts.
The post-Covid city
How the pandemic has transformed our use and experience of urban space
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness
Polari Prize winners
Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet
