Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism
An insider's view of war
Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents
Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.
Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Matthew Sweet discusses Iris Murdoch's philosophical essay of 1970
Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
Philip Dodd visits the US rust belt city of Cleveland.
Russia and Fear.
Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past & present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze.
Free Thinking: Language and Belonging
Preti Taneja with Guy Gunaratne,Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri & Deena Mohamed
Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction
Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared
Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak
Two campaigning women talk to Matthew Sweet.
