Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Lost Words and Language
Shahidha Bari looks at research showcased in the Being Human Festival at UK universities
Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?
Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?
Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night
Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey , Tibor Fischer& Damian Catani on C茅line's masterpiece
Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.
Gillian Clarke. Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.
Re-thinking the Human Condition
Thomas Woolston Free Thinker, Isaiah Berlin philosopher plus memory and neuroscience.
Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.
The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago and suffragette Punch and Judy.
The Memes that Make Us Laugh
Julian Baggini, Tiffany Watt Smith & Christopher Harding
From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage
Reconstructing the thought-world of the middle ages
The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.
Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.
