Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
-
![]()
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari
-
![]()
Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall
The landscape of an artist鈥檚 imagination plus how mountaineering inspired a physicist
-
![]()
Syria: hope and poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst
-
![]()
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
How knowledge of poets鈥� lives shapes how we view their work; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
-
![]()
Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised 19th c Redcoat
-
![]()
Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change.
-
![]()
Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng
Anne McElvoy discusses maths and music with Mathematician Eugenia Cheng.
-
![]()
Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
Matthew Sweet on surveillance capitalism, The Third Man, and Stieg Larsson's obsessions
-
![]()
Suits. Neil LaBute
Shahidha Bari explores the history of suits with Anne McElvoy. Plus dramatist Neil LaBute
-
![]()
Sugar
Matthew Sweet examines how sugar built the modern world
-
![]()
Street Culture, Protests, Food.
Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.
-
![]()
Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War Two refugees.
-
![]()
Stories of Love
Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming of age tale Rubyfruit Jungle
-
![]()
Stonehenge history
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths
-
![]()
Steven Pinker on Progress
Steven Pinker explains to Philip Dodd why we should ignore headlines & be more optimistic
-
![]()
Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with 麻豆社 Radio 4's conversation programme & an audience at Sage Gateshead
-
![]()
Star Trek
Matthew Sweet with George Takei, Naomi Alderman, Una McCormack and Jos茅-Antonio Orosco
-
![]()
Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn & Ella Parry-Davies.
-
![]()
St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Rana Mitter discusses three major theorists of religion and self-development
-
![]()
Spy talk
From a secret Iraqi spy cell to new revelations of cold war exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.
-
![]()
Spike Lee
The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.
-
![]()
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking
Lynda Clark, Allison Koenecke and Sadie Ryan discuss their research with Matthew Sweet
-
![]()
Speaking Welsh
Catherine Fletcher with Richard King, Caryl Lewis, Elen Ifan and Seiriol Davies
-
![]()
Speaking the right language.
Matthew Sweet asks how did the English language grow & what are the key election phrases?
-
![]()
South Asia: poverty and princes
Historians Joya Chatterji and Tripurdaman Singh, plus the novels of Kamala Markandaya
-
![]()
South African writing
Damon Galgut discusses his Booker winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy
-
![]()
Sound, conflict and central heating
Matthew Sweet finds out how extreme temperatures changed Erland Cooper's music
-
![]()
Sound of Cinema - Ken Loach and George Fenton
Acclaimed director Ken Loach and composer George Fenton have collaborated on fourteen...
-
![]()
Sound of Cinema - James Horner
As part of the 麻豆社's Sound of Cinema season, Tom Service talks to ten-time Academy...
-
![]()
Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell
Carter Burwell is famed for scoring the films of the iconic Coen Brothers, from 1984's...
