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Arts & Ideas Episodes

  1. Digging Deep

    Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking

  2. Digging Deep

    Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.

  3. David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art

    David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet.

  4. Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self

    Directors Danny Boyle and Nev Schulman on their latest films; psychotherapist Susie on...

  5. Dam Fever and the Diaspora

    How do large dam projects gain widespread support despite past examples asks Majed Akhter

  6. Dam Fever and The Diaspora

    How do large dam projects attract such adoration, despite lessons of twentieth century?

  7. Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of Novelists

    Philip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world...

  8. Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics

    Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also...

  9. Comrades in Arms

    Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality

  10. Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care

    Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the UK

  11. Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

    Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK & Lebanon

  12. Children of the Waters

    Sabina Dosani looks at the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage

  13. Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau

  14. Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.

  15. Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

    The father of modern computing thought the sea could communicate. Joan Passey explains.

  16. Call Me Mother

    How the shape of words for mother helps babies eat their food. Rebecca Woods explains

  17. Byron, celebrity and fan mail

    Would Byron have embraced Twitter?

  18. Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War

    Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?

  19. Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys

    A look at Butlins at 75 with Roy Hudd and Martin Parr, an interview with Werner Egan...

  20. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

    Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden

  21. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard

    New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle

  22. Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

    Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi

  23. Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman

    2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations

  24. Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

    New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper

  25. Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley

    We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 in...

  26. Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller

    We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German and...

  27. Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade

    Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the of and...

  28. Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

    Tom Smith's essay on early pioneers of Berlin's music scene and arguments about whiteness

  29. Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

    Tom Smith looks at the early pioneers of this music scene & arguments about whiteness now

  30. Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills

    Sarah Jilani on Latife Tekin’s magical realist novel about 1960’s Istanbul shanty towns.

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