Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
France, music hall and history
An outdoor history of France and a look inside popular French theatre's view on Britain
Women warriors and power brokers
Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez with Shahidha Bari
The Black Fantastic
How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.
Writing about money
Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics
New Thinking: India in the archives
Dr Naomi Paxton explores archives for stories of Indian culture and history.
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire
David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
Two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world
Belief, Habit & Religion
Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history
Late works
Geoff Dyer and Dame Sheila Hancock discuss endings and lateness with Matthew Sweet.
ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the life of the German Romantic who died 25 June 1822.
