Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
How we see pregnancy past and present
Anne McElvoy hears the story of a woman who gave birth to rabbits and the news from Davos
Remembering Auschwitz
Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation & talks to author Anne Michaels
What is good listening?
Matthew Sweet with NYT journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf, David Toop.
Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Greg Tate, Sam Illingworth & Sunayana Bhargava join Anne McElvoy.
Goddesses of academia
Nikita Gill, Francesca Wade, Sandeep Parmar & Victoria Leonard talk goddesses & classics
New Thinking: About Face
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?
Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans
Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
From Elizabethan Anne Dowriche, Victorian Anne Bronte to why women say they read now.
Simplify your life
Nudism, camping, and vegetarianism: the Life Reform movement explained.
Philosophy and Film
Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss whether you can philosophise with film
