Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Red Shoes
Ahead of a BFI festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Powell and Pressburger's film
Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy on a '70s US writing group. Lauren Elkin on art monsters
Wolfson Prize 2023
Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize
Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing
Writing and Place: Cornwall
Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey
The Black Country past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests with an audience at the 2022 Contains Strong Language Festival
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience
Landladies
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.
Late works
Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings
Dark Places
A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness
