Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
America: Inequality & Race
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
Tokyo Idols and Urban life.
Tomouki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.
Landmark: Rash艒mon
David Peace & Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
Japan and Nature
The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy
Learning from Sweden
From IKEA to Bergman and ABBA - Matthew Sweet looks at Sweden's impact on Britain.
Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.
The Politics of Fashion and Drag
Shahidha Bari talks fashion with Jenny Gilbert & to Scrumbly Koldewyn about the Cockettes
Marilynne Robinson
The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter
Macbeth and Things Fall Apart
Jo Nesb酶 and Mark Ravenhill on the Scottish Play; Chinua Achebe's novel about leadership.
British New Wave Films of the '60s
Matthew Sweet on the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey and The Knack.
