Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
China, Freud, war and sci fi
From AI & fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
Stonehenge history
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths
Existential Risk
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests
Whale watching
Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.
Whale-watching
Philip Hoare, Rachel Murray, Peter Riley and Edward Sugden explore marine life.
Diverse Classical Music II
Christienna Fryar speaks to four researchers whose work is expanding the musical canon
Futurism
Matthew Sweet explores into the movement that celebrated technology, vitality, violence
Modernism Around The World
The Bauhaus in Deli, Japanese and South African novels, and poetry and art in Mexico
Paper
From the Chinese Han Dynasty in 105 AD to the 20th-century workplace, art and rubbish.
How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece
Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin LeGendre & Owen Hatherley build up a Manifesto