Barocci, Hugo Chávez, David Blunkett on compassion

David Blunkett on compassion, a new Barocci exhibition, and Rory Carroll on Hugo Chavez.

• 45 mins

Paul Foot Award, John Gray, Literary Stalking

With the Paul Foot award, philosopher John Gray and James Lasdun on literary stalking.

• 45 mins

Finnegans Wake in Chinese, Sara Wheeler, Muslim Comedy, Apocalypses

Finnegans Wake in Chinese, Sara Wheeler, Muslim Comedy and Apocalypses.

• 45 mins

Caesar Must Die, 1930s Berlin, Stage Design, Anarcho-Capitalists

Anne McElvoy presents the arts and ideas programme.

• 45 mins

Sex in the Arab World, a New Age of Enlightenment, the Louvre as History

Philip Dodd and sex in the Arab world, a new Age of enlightenment, the Louvre as history.

• 45 mins

The Audience, Heritage, Side Effects, The Digital Revolution

With Matthew Sweet. Including the play The Audience and the film Side Effects.

• 45 mins

Danny Boyle, David Livingstone, Ruth Ozeki

Rana Mitter presents. With Danny Boyle, Ruth Ozeki and a discussion on David Livingstone.

• 45 mins

David Cohen Prize, Mark Vernon, Tom Morris, Michael Axworthy

Michael Axworthy talks to Anne McElvoy about his new book Revolutionary Iran.

• 45 mins

Julia O'Faolain, Written on Skin, The Revolt of Islam, Non-judgemental language

Matthew Sweet is joined by Irish novelist Julia O'Faolain.

• 45 mins

Yael Farber, Kevin Fong, John Agard and Carlos Reygadas

Presented by Samira Ahmed. With Yael Farber, Kevin Fong, John Agard and Carlos Reygadas.

• 45 mins

George Bellows, Geoff Mulgan, Psychology As Science, Ken Loach

George Bellows, Geoff Mulgan, psychology as a science, and Ken Loach's Spirit of '45.

• 45 mins

Industrial Revolution, Yinka Shonibare, Aleksandar Hemon, Alice Rawsthorn

Anne McElvoy talks to celebrated Balkan novelist and essayist Aleksandar Hemon.

• 45 mins

David Bowie, Javier Marias, David Cannadine

Matthew Sweet talks to award-winning Spanish novelist Javier Marias about his new novel.

• 45 mins

Noam Chomsky, Anthony Seldon

Philip Dodd talks to the philosopher Noam Chomsky and the biographer Anthony Seldon.

• 45 mins

Baroque Spring

Rana Mitter presents a special edition for Radio 3's Baroque Spring season.

• 45 mins

The Book of Mormon, Constitutions, Press Regulation, Lina Prokofiev

Presented by Anne McElvoy. Including The Book of Mormon, constitutions, press regulation.

• 45 mins

James Wood, Michael Grigsby, Pompeii and Herculaneum, In the House

Including James Wood, Michael Grigsby, Margaret Mountford on Pompeii, In the House.

• 45 mins

27/03/2013

Author Mohsin Hamid talks to Samira Ahmed about his latest novel.

• 45 mins

Nicholas Hytner, Posthumanism, Penny Woolcock

Sir Nicholas Hytner, posthumanism, and the inner city gangs attempting peace negotiations.

• 45 mins

History in Schools

What history should children learn and be able to contextualise? And what do they know?

• 45 mins

Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, Adam Rutherford, John Yorke

Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, genetics with Adam Rutherford and producer John Yorke.

• 45 mins

Silence, Geffrye Museum, Edward Petherbridge, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Anne McElvoy talks to writer and historian Diarmaid MacCulloch.

• 45 mins

Landmarks: The Making of the English Working Class

A landmark edition examining EP Thompson's book The Making of the English Working Class.

• 45 mins

The Rijksmuseum

Matthew Sweet visits Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch.

• 45 mins

Oliver Stone, Chimamanda Adichie, Web Harvesting

Chimamanda Adichie, Oliver Stone, AS Byatt on web harvests, and a Twitter-inspired opera.

• 45 mins

Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher, with Dominic Sandbrook, Will Self, Peter Hitchens and Edwina Currie.

• 45 mins

15/04/2013

Matthew Sweet presents a review of the new opera The Sunken Garden.

• 45 mins

Howard Brenton, BRICS Countries, Napoleon, Promised Land

Philip Dodd talks to Howard Brenton about his new play, The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei.

• 45 mins

Tanika Gupta, BC Johnson, Corin Throsby & Laurence Scott, Rick Gekoski

Tanika Gupta discusses her new play about late Victorian Indian immigrants to Britain.

• 45 mins

Sheryl Sandberg, Doktor Glas, Revenge, Choucair

Anne McElvoy talks to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer.

• 45 mins