麻豆社 Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Cows in culture and soil

Are cows the answer to depleted soil or the problem? With farmer and author James Rebanks

Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & anthropology pioneers

Anne McElvoy surveys current thinking on big political ideas and ideology.

John Gallagher looks at creating in multiple tongues and the slipperiness of metaphor

Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges

From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of 鈥榃EIRD鈥� people, 3 authors look at kin

Eleanor Barraclough explores the significance of the much mythologised Pilgrim voyage.

Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of Matthew Sweet's guests

Matthew Sweet meets members of the 麻豆社 Radiophonic Workshop.

Pat Barker & Giles Fraser on Russian lit/Edith Hall & Barry Cunliffe on the classical sea