Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
Matthew Sweet with Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and John Cook
Jacques Tati's Trafic
Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.
Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 that uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Matthew Sweet re-reads a classic of French postmodern theory
Milton: Samson Agonistes
How do we look at blindness in poetic writing, classics, in Milton's and Handel's life?
John Milton's Samson Agonistes
Rana Mitter looks at how politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem
The Liverpool Biennial debate
How to reflect Liverpool's history in new artworks: Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion.
Spy talk
From a secret Iraqi spy cell to new revelations of cold war exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.
From Blackface to Beyonc茅
From the theatre stage to the Superbowl, in praise of Black performance
Writing About Faith
Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott
