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

The New Common Reader

Matthew Sweet examines the place of reading in a digital age.

• 45 mins

Othello, Richard Holmes, Insects, The Middle Classes

Rana Mitter presents a first-night review of the National Theatre's production of Othello.

• 45 mins

Englishness

Philip Dodd and six guests discuss Englishness. What is it and is it a useful identity?

• 45 mins

Simon Schama, America in Primetime, Here Lies Love, Basti

Presented by Anne McElvoy. Including an interview with Simon Schama.

• 45 mins

The Octoroon

Matthew Sweet is joined on stage at the Royal Stratford East by playwright Mark Ravenhill.

• 45 mins

Steve Jones, Tony Garnett, Margaret Mead

Tony Garnett; Steve Jones on the Bible; Peter Mandler and Kit Davies on Margaret Mead.

• 45 mins

Billy Liar, Ellen Gallagher, Introverts & Extroverts, Michael Burleigh

Samira Ahmed looks back at John Schlesinger's film Billy Liar on its 50th anniversary.

• 45 mins

Future Warfare

Anne McElvoy and guests examine how the traditional rules of warfare are changing.

• 45 mins

Terence Stamp

Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp.

• 45 mins

Peter Nichols, Darian Leader, Politics in Architecture

Rana Mitter talks to the playwright Peter Nichols about his Passion Play.

• 45 mins

Rothko Returns to Latvia, John Beddington

Rothko returns to Latvia; and former Government Chief Scientific Adviser John Beddington.

• 45 mins

Melnikov House, Anat Admati, The Hothouse, The Rest is Noise

Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Russell Beale and John Simm about Pinter's The Hothouse.

• 45 mins

Public Enemy, FR Leavis, Tate Britain, Death

Matthew Sweet visits Tate Britain to examine a complete re-hang of the collection.

• 45 mins

The Great Gatsby, Charles Correa, Political Movements

With architect Charles Correa, the film The Great Gatsby and political movements.

• 45 mins

Acting Styles, Propaganda and Power, Jesse Norman

Anne McElvoy discusses the political legacy of Edmund Burke.

• 45 mins

Lee Smolin, Mafia, Not I, Inconceivable

Lee Smolin talks to Samira Ahmed about the way that the laws of physics change over time.

• 45 mins

James Salter

Matthew Sweet talks to American novelist and short story writer James Salter.

• 45 mins

Khaled Hosseini, Man Booker International Prize, Disgraced, the Future of Psychiatry

Khaled Hosseini, Man Booker International Prize, Disgraced and the future of psychiatry.

• 45 mins

Wagner 200, Michael Landy, Prague

With Anne McElvoy. Including a discussion about Wagner and antisemitism.

• 45 mins

Childhood

Matthew Sweet and guests examine our current and past attitudes to childhood.

• 45 mins

Philip Hoare, Morality and the Law, Andrew Upton

Including tax, law and morality, plus writers Philip Hoare and Andrew Upton.

• 45 mins

Race, Nate Silver, RB Kitaj, Philanthropy

With Philip Dodd. Including a review of the UK premiere of David Mamet's play Race.

• 45 mins

The Rite of Spring, George Monbiot, Mary Rose, Suffrage Plays

Anne McElvoy discusses In the Mind of Igor, 'rewilding' Britain and the Mary Rose museum.

• 45 mins