Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Does Growth Matter?
Is the economic future all about growth? Danny Dorling discusses Slowdown.

Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet

Advertising & Artemisia
Considering how women have shaped art and advertising and new feminist writing in Korea.

Fighting Women
How women have fought on the frontline from antiquity to the present day

Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.

Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War Two refugees.

Frank Ramsey
Shahidha Bari looks at the life and legacy of the 20th century polymath

New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan and Sarah Ellis are pushing the VR envelope

Anne Enright + the value of gossip
Anne Enright discusses acting with Daisy Black, Emily Butterworth and Marie Le Conte.

Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.