Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Child's Eye View
Shahidha Bari asks how we can learn from children's perspectives. With Katherine Rundell
Eccentrics & Outsiders
Matthew Sweet looks at figures including Sylvia Townsend Warner
Satire and Gulliver's Travels
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss satire past and present
Wealth
Can the accumulation of wealth be ethical and what can we learn from Adam Smith's work?
Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility
Baroness Hale, Philippa Perry, Guto Harri and Simon Critchley join Shahidha Bari at Hay
Thinking with Food
Felicity Cloake, John Lanchester, Prof Barry Smith, Suki Finn and Samantha Ellis
Technologies of the Self
From journaling to prayer: Shahidha Bari on the history and politics of self creation
The Middle
Middle - England, ground, child, age, pig in ... Anne McElvoy hosts a middling discussion
Weapons, real and symbolic
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss tanks, guns, gaming, drones and what weaponisation means
Weapons, real and symbolic
Matthew Sweet and guests explore what weapons mean - in the past and now.
