Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali
Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.
Comrades in Arms
Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality
Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James Joyce's experimental novel.
Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised 19th c Redcoat
The well-groomed Georgian
Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth
Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.
Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement
Artist, archaeologists, a writer and a historian of the face make the invisible visible
Breaking Down the Barriers
The cultural contribution of Muslim women and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane
Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.
Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision & how our own is shaping up.
Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI
