Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Landmark – Man with a Movie Camera
Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov
Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Svetlana Alexeivich on Soviet oral history as literature and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.
The pros and cons of Swearing.
Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore
Benjamin Britten and Radio
David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.
Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.
Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...
Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner
Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet
Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin
Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman
Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson
Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie
Matthew Sweet with an exploration of memory and Winston Graham's novel/Hitchcock's film
The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?
Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion plus the rise of small nations.