Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
WW II radio propaganda & French relations
From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.
Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk
Revisit: Mark Haddon
As it comes out in paperback, Mark Haddon talks to Anne McElvoy about The Porpoise.
Cary Grant
Matthew Sweet talks to Pamela Hutchinson, Charlotte Crofts & Mark Glancy.
Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter at Hay
Alternative Realities
Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life changing experiences & the fourth dimension
Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books Shakespeare would have read.
Deep Time and the Earth
Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.
Belonging
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards
New Thinking: Religion and ordinary lives
Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles
