Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Green Thinking: Food
How can we make food and farming more sustainable?
Connecting with nature
Music from thunder, art inspired by a dog walk,essays about a rural wood and a city field
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tom McCarthy and others join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'
Green Thinking: Weather
What can we learn from how people responded to extreme weather events in the past?
Breathe
Soweto Kinch, James Nestor, and Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture
Green Thinking: Festivals
Des Fitzgerald hears how festivals can reduce their ecological footprint
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between mining, the arts, and culture
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Matthew Sweet excavates the culture and arts of mining
Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran + why people abandon cities.
The English country house party
Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?
