Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Sea Goings
Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark
Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence
Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Writing about the Holocaust + the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain
Consent
How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.
Slow Looking at Art
Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.
Oscars 2019
Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists
Icons.
Do our heroes and heroines have to be perfect? We look at ikons, film idols & politicians.
Tourism past and present
The must see sights for Post Napoleonic war tourists, cold war travellers & hot spots now
Walls
Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall
Boredom
Time and the value of doing nothing
