Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Post Truth & Derrida
What is Derrida's influence in the 'post-truth' age?

Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk about their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival

New Thinking about Museums
From VR Vikings & military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections

The Frieze ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy

New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history

Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes

Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
How knowledge of poets’ lives shapes how we view their work; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Cows in culture and soil
Are cows the answer to depleted soil or the problem? With farmer and author James Rebanks

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & anthropology pioneers

Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
Anne McElvoy surveys current thinking on big political ideas and ideology.