Creativity, performance, debate
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H.Guston with Matthew Sweet.
Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.
Humboldt as Ecuadorian explorer, plus the territory between Scotland and England.
Leila Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed.
Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Joe Moshenska and Philip Dodd discuss Charles I's art.
Peter Carey talks to Rana Mitter about race and racing, on the subject of his latest novel
Matthew Sweet looks at the films nominated for the 2018 Academy Awards.
Five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Drama exploring what happened to Jessica, Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice.
As technology has improved how has it enabled artists to create new kinds of work?
Ian McMillan's guests are David Crystal, poet Mike Garry and novelist Jenny Colgan.
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd.
Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo and Paul Cronin on uprisings.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces
Writers reflect on how particular rocks shape landscapes and people over time.
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a series exploring the impact of technology on creativity
Ian McMillan's guests are Ron Padgett, Hollie McNish, Harry Giles, and Laurie Bolger.
Travel writer Phoebe Smith on Hafod Eryri and the chutzpah of building on mountains.
Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present.
Andrew Hurley on the haunting qualities of a 17th-century manor house near Preston.
Novelist Melissa Harrison on the joy of 'sleeping with books' at Gladstone's Library.
Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment.
Pianist Stephen Hough on Wigmore Hall and how its 'shoebox' design catches the ear.
A practical guide to immortality, life extension and survival in the far north.
