Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
A city is not a park but should it be?
A short talk at the Free Thinking Festival from New Generation Thinker Des Fitzgerald.
Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
Historian of emotions Professor Thomas Dixon, Matthew Sweet & the Sage Gateshead audience
Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Betrayal
Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal
Childhood faces and fears
A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney
Empathy
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey & AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.
George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
One poet and two writers in conversation about language, migrants and personhood
Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri
The Council Estate in Culture
Why are estates so often portrayed as incubators of social deprivation and criminality?
Women, relationships and the law past and present
Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay
