Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Day of the Triffids
The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel
Caribbean art
As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post war writing and art
D眉rer, Rhinos and Whales
Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.
Toys
How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.
Christopher Logue's War Music
Shahidha Bari and guests read this version of Homer's Illiad and look at Logue's language
Romanian history and literature
Novelists Mircea C膬rt膬rescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration
From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.
Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Ahead of a performance at the London Jazz Festival, what history underpins the album?
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?
