Creativity, performance, debate
Byzantium by Robin Brooks. Poison, rebellion, torture, eunuch armies and black magic.
Theo Dorgan finds out why Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, who died in 1968, is so loved now.
Ian McMillan presents the word cabaret, exploring the possibilities of looking back.
Steven Pinker explains to Philip Dodd why we should ignore headlines + be more optimistic.
Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.
Anne McElvoy looks at Napoleon impersonators, ballads and what if he didn't die in exile?
Anne McElvoy meets artist Mark Dion and biologist Menno Schilthuizen.
The changes brought to the people and landscape of the Scottish Highlands.
Philip Dodd talks to Michael Ignatieff about the political landscape of central Europe.
A poetic retelling of a Jackie Chan fight Scene from Ross Sutherland
Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude
Jon Fosse's Ibsen Prize-winning stage play is the story of a young woman's return home.
Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn.
Shahidha Bari leads a discussion of Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017).
A Landmark edition in which Philip Dodd and guests examine The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Philip Dodd and guests ask has culture forgotten the working class?
Willy Vlautin, Ben Crystal and Ross Sutherland get physical with language.
Intrepid actors stage a production of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost in Kabul in 2005.
Love, passion and change. Five stories dramatised from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Anne McElvoy on Davos discussions, Ocean liner style at the V&A and mermaids in fiction.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Colm Toibin and others to discuss Bergman's Wild Strawberries.
As technology has improved how has it enabled artists to create new kinds of work?
Melissa Lee-Houghton, Julie Hesmondhalgh and George Szirtes.
Ian McMillan and Hollie McNish present the best in new poetry.
