Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.
Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie
The Digital Humanities
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
Landmark: Watership Down
An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.
What does game playing teach us?
Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.
Trees of Knowledge
Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner
Ice
Anne McElvoy & guests travel to the frozen ends of the Earth & C17 theatrical magic...
Linton Kwesi Johnson
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd
Writing and Frankness
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
Are we being manipulated?
Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders
