Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Jane Smiley, Christopher Prendergast, Jayne Haynes, Marie Darrieussecq with Matthew Sweet
George Bernard Shaw
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950)
Plastic and Clay
The extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
How video games interpret stories about war and conflict and help to train troops.
John Knox
A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena joins Anne McElvoy
Alexander the Great
Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander
New Thinking: Beowulf
Short: How studying grammar and computer games can explain Old English poetry
Ghostwatch
Matthew Sweet on the 1992 TV horror
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
The Nobel Prize winning novelist is joined by academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria
