Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Waiting
What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?
Sheffield reinvented
New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.
Slow Film and Ecology
Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film made about rice over 18 years
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922
South African writing
Damon Galgut discusses his Booker winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy
John McGrath's Scottish Drama
Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Victorian streets
Is that strong inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one?
The Wolfson Prize 2022
Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for this prize for history writing.
New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities
Hidden LGBTQ+ histories in Northern Ireland and queer cinema in contemporary China
Get Carter
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.
