Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Landmark: Watership Down
An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.
What does game playing teach us?
Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.
Trees of Knowledge
Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner
Ice
Anne McElvoy & guests travel to the frozen ends of the Earth & C17 theatrical magic...
Linton Kwesi Johnson
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd
Writing and Frankness
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
Are we being manipulated?
Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders
Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV
Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
The director of Get Carter talks to Matthew Sweet about writing his own crime stories.
