Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
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.
Purity
David Aaronovitch, Catherine Coldstream, Linda Woodhead and others join Matthew Sweet
Humility
From Spinoza's thinking to the "humble brag" - Matthew Sweet and guests explore humility.
Oral tradition and oracy
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss look at fluently in politics, the classroom & society
Taste
Matthew Sweet and guests explore what it means to have "good taste".
