Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV
Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
The director of Get Carter talks to Matthew Sweet about writing his own crime stories.
Slavery Stories
A long lost classic now published, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted novel & new research
Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw
Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
POTUS, crisis management and ambition - Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to Anne McElvoy
The Left Behind
Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, populism and immigration
What kind of history should we write?
Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter
Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.
From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community & the 29 bus route
Death rituals
From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way doctors cope.