Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
The Writing of Aime Cesaire
Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness
Polari Prize winners
Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta
Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet
Post Truth & Derrida
What is Derrida's influence in the 'post-truth' age?
Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk about their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival
New Thinking about Museums
From VR Vikings & military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections
The Frieze Âé¶¹Éç Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy
New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history
Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
How knowledge of poets’ lives shapes how we view their work; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi