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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    The Rossettis and Walter Pater

    Matthew Sweet and guests visit a Tate Britain show and look at Pater's Renaissance ideas

  2. The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

    Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy

  3. The Red Shoes

    Ahead of a BFI festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Powell and Pressburger's film

  4. The Radiophonic Workshop

    Matthew Sweet meets members of the 麻豆社 Radiophonic Workshop.

  5. The pros and cons of Swearing.

    Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore

  6. The power of dance and the meaning of 'public'.

    The links between dance, art and the brain and the meaning of "the public"

  7. The post-Covid city

    How the pandemic has transformed our use and experience of urban space

  8. The Population Bomb

    Danny Dorling, Lionel Shriver and Stephen Emmott debate with Matthew Sweet.

  9. The Politics of Fashion and Drag

    Shahidha Bari talks fashion with Jenny Gilbert & to Scrumbly Koldewyn about the Cockettes

  10. The Piano and Love

    Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.

  11. The Normans

    Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today

  12. The New Age of Sentimentality

    Lisa Appignanesi,Rachel Hewitt & Irenosen Okojie w/ Rana Mitter at Free Thinking Festival

  13. The Mill on the Floss

    Celebrating George Eliot with readings from Fiona Shaw

  14. The Middle Classes

    Muriel Zagha, Prof. Sam Friedman, Lord Willetts, Lisa Holdsworth & Prof. Melinda Mills

  15. The Middle

    Middle - England, ground, child, age, pig in ... Anne McElvoy hosts a middling discussion

  16. The mermaid-like M茅lusine

    The fish-tailed woman of medieval folklore is discussed by Shahidha Bari and guests.

  17. The Memes that Make Us Laugh

    Julian Baggini, Tiffany Watt Smith & Christopher Harding

  18. The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President

    Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.

  19. The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

    Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion plus the rise of small nations.

  20. The Liverpool Biennial debate

    How to reflect Liverpool's history in new artworks: Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion.

  21. The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

    An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.

  22. The Legacy of the Trojan War

    Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?

  23. The Legacy of the Laundries

    Louise Brangan reflects on the uncovering of the secret lives lived in Irish laundries

  24. The Left Behind

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

  25. The Language of Flowers

    Rebecca Solnit's book Orwell's Roses explores his interest in gardening

  26. The Kyoto School

    Chris Harding investigates the flourishing of Japanese philosophy in the 1930s and beyond

  27. The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.

    Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, and the history of sewing.

  28. The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

    Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

  29. The Joy of Bureaucracy

    Matthew Sweet with guests including Lord Butler, Andr茅 Spicer and Eliane Glaser

  30. The Joy of Bad Films

    Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.

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