Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Sound of Cinema - Baz Luhrmann & Craig Armstrong
Australian director Baz Luhrmann shot to fame in 1992 with Strictly Ballroom and was...
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Soil, Chickens and City Farms
Ahead of world soil day, Anne McElvoy looks at changes to both rural and urban farming.
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Soil Stories Old and New
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Jules Pretty, Andrew Scott, Philip Coupland, Matthew Kelly
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Soil
John Gallagher and guests dig deep into the significance of soil
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Soho
130 acres of central London synonymous with sex and shadiness immortalised in film
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Sneezing, smells and noses
From Montaigne on sneezing to losing the sense of smell & historians using their noses.
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Slow Looking at Art
Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.
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Slow Film and Ecology
Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film made about rice over 18 years
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Sleep justice and sleeplessness
Laurence Scott talks to researchers exploring how we sleep and the idea of sleep justice
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Sleep
John Gallagher gets sleeping tips from research pioneers and early modern history
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Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture
Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet
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Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence
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Slavoj 沤i啪ek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.
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Slavic culture and myth
Matthew Sweet looks at the origins of creatures like Baba Yaga, Banniks and Rusalkas.
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Slavery Stories
A long lost classic now published, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted novel & new research
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Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Laurence Scott & Will Self on redundant features in design + a visit to Collect Craft Show
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Sisters
The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Lucy Holland and Shahidha Bari
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Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes
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Simplify your life
Nudism, camping, and vegetarianism: the Life Reform movement explained.
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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?
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Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from Da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.
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Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.
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Sidney Poitier
Matthew Sweet and guests consider the career of the Bahamian-American actor (1927-2022)
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Should We Keep Pets?
John Bradshaw, Jessica Pierce, Philip Howell and Laura Purcell with Anne McElvoy.
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Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie
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Should Doctors Cry?
Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?
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Should biographers imitate their subjects?
The perils of writing biographies of scientist JS Haldane & Indian mystic Mother Meera
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Shopping Around the Baby Market
Gulzaar Barn asks questions about commercial surrogacy and the way we view our bodies.
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Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos - Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade
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Ships and History
Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards, and Tom Nancollas
