Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Working Lunch and Food in History
How the Victorians changed lunch, Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman鈥檚 Rights
Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence
John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower
Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England
The Forgotten German Princess
The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.
Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure
Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
The man who loved our trees and woods and new ideas of what they were and might become
Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
Colin Grant Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari
The Word For World Is Forest
Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel + Paul Foot Award.
The Piano and Love
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
