Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture
Love
Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha- the science & art of love.
Africa Babel China
Histories of West Africa, 20th c China, art of translation
Spike Lee
The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.
Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series
Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk
Street Culture, Protests, Food.
Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.
Sea Goings
Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark
Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence
Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Writing about the Holocaust + the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain
