Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Greg Tate, Sam Illingworth & Sunayana Bhargava join Anne McElvoy.
Goddesses of academia
Nikita Gill, Francesca Wade, Sandeep Parmar & Victoria Leonard talk goddesses & classics
New Thinking: About Face
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans
Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
From Elizabethan Anne Dowriche, Victorian Anne Bronte to why women say they read now.
Simplify your life
Nudism, camping, and vegetarianism: the Life Reform movement explained.
Philosophy and Film
Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss whether you can philosophise with film
Could there be a private language?
Shahidha Bari investigates Wittgenstein's response to scepticism
Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?
Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on panpsychism, a radical movement in philosophy
The Strange Case of the Huge Country Pile
Why are we so obsessed by the setting of the big country house, upstairs and downstairs?
