Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
1922:Food fads
John Gallagher talks to Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson about iguana soup and protein bars
1922: Reader's Digest
The "agreggator" of stories - we look at how it launched and revolutionised reading
Landladies
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.
Bestiaries and Beyond
Shahidha Bari investigates the human invention of animals
Lists
Are lists a good way of organising chaos? Lisa Mullen and guests discuss
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience
Trapeze acts and circus celebrities
Shahidha Bari hears about the aerialists Lillian Leitzel and Pablo Fanque.
New Thinking: Language, the Victorians and Us
From Lancashire dialect protest poetry to Hardy's Dorset vowels. John Gallagher hosts.
How do we look at Art?
Catherine Fletcher with Vid Simoniti; Cleo Hanaway-Oakley; Lamin Fofana and Sally Booth
Soil, Chickens and City Farms
Ahead of world soil day, Anne McElvoy looks at changes to both rural and urban farming.
