Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Joy of Bureaucracy
Matthew Sweet with guests including Lord Butler, Andr茅 Spicer and Eliane Glaser
Steven Pinker on Progress
Steven Pinker explains to Philip Dodd why we should ignore headlines & be more optimistic
Napoleon in Fact & Fiction
Napoleon impersonators, ballads and what if he didn't die in exile?
Reflecting Rural Life
Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.
Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf
Human Beings are part of Natural History discuss: via art, science and the Bloosmbury set
How Big Should the State Be?
David Willetts, Polly Toynbee, Simone Finn, Julia Black & Adrian Wooldridge at LSE.
Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe
Philip Dodd talks to Michael Ignatieff about the political landscape of central Europe.
Tariq Ali
Rana Mitter talks to Tariq Ali, novelist, historian & political activist about 1968.
Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
Single motherhood, child slavery & parallels w/ Grenfell in the books of Buchi Emecheta
Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids
Anne McElvoy on Davos discussions, Ocean liner style at the V&A and mermaids in fiction.
