Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Consent
How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.
Slow Looking at Art
Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.
Oscars 2019
Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists
Icons.
Do our heroes and heroines have to be perfect? We look at ikons, film idols & politicians.
Tourism past and present
The must see sights for Post Napoleonic war tourists, cold war travellers & hot spots now
Walls
Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall
Boredom
Time and the value of doing nothing
Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.
Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie
The Digital Humanities
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
