Creativity, performance, debate
New Generation Thinker Islam Issa looks at Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.
Reviled apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock meets psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.
Alistair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.
Ian McMillan and guests discuss 'The Many' from the Free Thinking Festival in Gateshead.
Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Anne McElvoy discusses the impact of tech on the way we behave with guests.
Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village and community relations now
The little-known plays written by activists to help in the campaign for votes for women.
Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.
Sarah Hall, Hollie McNish & Vanessa Kisuule, Ari Eldjarn, and Rob Drummond.
MP Johnny Mercer, Theatre Director Elizabeth Newman and former footballer Paul Fletcher.
Sean Williams rereads Laurence Sterne's subjective travel book and talks to Philip Hensher
Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?
Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Fern Riddell and others discuss women's suffrage.
Francis Pryor, Paul Pettitt, Ruth Whitehouse; Sean Borodale; Sharon Robinson-Calver.
David Willetts, Polly Toynbee, Simone Finn, Julia Black, Adrian Wooldridge + Anne McElvoy.
Jim Al-Khalili, Melissa Bateson, Andrew Mcbain and Richard Bevan explore group behaviour.
Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September.
Robert Lindsay and Oliver Chris star in a dramatic re-imagining of Shakespeare's last day.
Economist Linda Yueh delivers her vision for restoring faith in the free market.
Writer Toby Litt and journalist Jude Rogers take notes with Ian McMillan.
Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying and bleeding
Matthew Sweet with guests including Lord Butler, Andre Spicer and Eliane Glaser.
