Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon
Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.
Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness
Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty
Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.
Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories
Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 & visits haunted places in Portsmouth
Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst
The former Booker Prize winner talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience.
Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.
Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.
Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.
Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.
Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido
Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.
Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World
The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break
