Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Mildred Pierce
James M Cain's classic novel and its film adaptation discussed by Matthew Sweet & guests
Marlene Dietrich
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich from Europe to Hollywood.
Winter Light
From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars & Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Anne McElvoy listens for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel
Ancient wisdom & remote living
From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples & the resilience of island life
New Thinking: Hey Presto!
Magic in medicine, surgery & business; panto cross-dressing; and panto & magic history
New Thinking: Ways of Talking about Health
The winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020
The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
Matthew Sweet on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Carnap and other philosophical greats
Times of Change
Can the Industrial Revolution and the end of the Aztecs help us shape a post COVID world
Mould-Breaking Writing
Max Porter, Chloe Aridjis, Will Harris and Xine Yao on writing the breaks the mould
