Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Proms Plus – exploring the narrative voice in literature
Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature
Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.
Howard Jacobson
Writer Howard Jacobson with a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.
Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard
Anne McElvoy and sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard
Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighborhood.
From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living
Matthew Sweet visits The Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.
Renzo Piano
The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard
What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.
Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter
Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA
The body, past and present
Beauty - Renaissance to the present. Chantal Joffe & Heather Widdows with Anne McElvoy