Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Landmark: The Odyssey
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd
Diving Deep
Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present
The Invention of the Circus Ring
Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of circus
Rethinking Tradition
Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment
A Literary Salon.
Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper and Jake Arnott join Matthew Sweet.
Should We Keep Pets?
John Bradshaw, Jessica Pierce, Philip Howell and Laura Purcell with Anne McElvoy.
Landmark - This Sporting Life
Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league
Many faces of Eve?
Catherine Fletcher with Stephen Greenblatt, Islam Issa, Jennifer Evans and Sara Read.
The Joy of Bad Films
Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.
Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment
Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.
