Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Kawanabe Ky艒sai and Yukio Mishima
Japanese cultural experimentation: painter, Ky艒sai 1831-1889 & writer, Mishima 1925-1970
A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris
Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.
John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom
Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854
May Day rituals
Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about community, collective action and May revels.
New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation
Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Ciss茅
Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne McElvoy looks at the life and legacy of the intriguing poet
New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield
Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of the poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.
Teaching and Inspiration
Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.
Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?
New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage
From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives
