Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)
Novelist Philip Roth talks to Philip Dodd about his life and work. (R3 Night Waves 2008)
Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
Jordan B Peterson
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets the YouTube star.
Designing the future
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.
What is Speech?
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox
Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing
Out of Control?
Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.
Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.
Marxism
Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.