Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

New Thinking: East West artistic connections
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art

Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.

Writing Place
Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.

Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future

New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water

The Legacy of the Laundries
Louise Brangan reflects on the uncovering of the secret lives lived in Irish laundries

Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies

Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip

From algorithms to oceans
Kerry McInerney explores the promise of the ‘sustainable AI’ movement and how AI develops

Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Cooper on the school teacher who tried to ignite a feminist revolution in Germany