Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Working Class in Culture
Philip Dodd and guests ask has culture forgotten the working class?
Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.
Burns the Radical; Exploration
Humboldt as Ecuadorian explorer, plus the territory between Scotland and England.
Royalty, art and patronage.
Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty
Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars
Lucy Porter & Steve Massa on women of the silent era, Vanda Krefft on William Fox's life
Frankenstein and AI now.
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston with Matthew Sweet.
French writing and politics
Le茂la Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed
Australian novelist Peter Carey.
A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales
Counterculture and Protest
Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo & Paul Cronin on uprisings.
The In Between
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces
