Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing
Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell, Tom Smith
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs
New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
What happens when one becomes two?
New Thinking: City Talk
Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop
Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism
An insider's view of war
Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents
Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.
