Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri
The Council Estate in Culture
Why are estates so often portrayed as incubators of social deprivation and criminality?
Women, relationships and the law past and present
Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo & Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.
Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner & William Fowler.
David Bailey, Don McCullin
Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, and the history of sewing.
Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Laurence Scott & Will Self on redundant features in design + a visit to Collect Craft Show
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Rescuing the Ripper's victims from the shadows of history
Images of Japan
Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.