Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Slavery Stories
A long lost classic now published, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted novel & new research

Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw

Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
POTUS, crisis management and ambition - Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to Anne McElvoy

The Left Behind
Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, populism and immigration

What kind of history should we write?
Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter

Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.
From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community & the 29 bus route

Death rituals
From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way doctors cope.

Lost Words and Language
Shahidha Bari looks at research showcased in the Being Human Festival at UK universities

Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?

Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?