Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Anne McElvoy looks at Russian punk protest + a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie
Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
New research into the history of stainless steel cutlery, tinned food and sewing machines
Ghosts of Caribbean History
New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Mary Evans and Michael Elliott
Climate change and empire building
The long history of climate change and empire: historians Nandini Das and Peter Frankopan
Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
Knossos - birthplace of myths and tragedies - explored by Rana Mitter and Natalie Haynes
Idrissa Ou茅draogo
The work of the Burkinab茅 filmmaker explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
Stories of Love
Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming of age tale Rubyfruit Jungle
Donkeys
From Aesop and the bible to the film EO which looks at a donkey born in a Polish circus.
The Heir of Redclyffe
Clare Walker-Gore revisits Charlotte M. Yonge's best-selling novel from 1853.
Lady Macbeth
From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.
