Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?
The Imperial War Museum 麻豆社 Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Matthew Sweet on charity shops, 'stuff', musical typewriters and the Being Human Festival
Billy Wilder
Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.
War in fact and fiction
Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
Shahidha Bari discuss the audience in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests
Individualism and Community
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA, carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts.
The post-Covid city
How the pandemic has transformed our use and experience of urban space
