Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Gloves
From python skin to digital worlds, PPE to vegan materials: how gloves are evolving.
Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
The French film star who burst onto the scene in 1960 in Godard's Breathless
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.
Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull
Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham
Two Buddhist scholars and the socialist feminist historian join Rana Mitter
Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
Matthew Sweet and guests look at The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921) and witches now
The TV Debate
Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr, Germaine Greer v Norman Mailer: Have debates changed?
New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021
Prize winning films about migration, autism, Colombians, farming and children born of war
Ground-breaking history books
Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.
The Day of the Triffids
The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel
