Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
Lisa Mullen explores the way data can change our view of history & looks at conservation.
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
The two weavers of fantastical fiction sift through myths with Matthew Sweet.
Alison Bechdel
American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich
Napoleon the gardener and art thief
Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter
Samuel Johnson's circle
Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we
Northern Ireland
Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers
New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale
Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals
New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop
Darragh McGee considers the history of gambling from 18th century card games to apps
Links between Judaism and Christianity
Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots
Epistemic Injustice
Shahidha Bari investigates how theory of knowledge can address real world problems
