Jonathan Lethem, Gary Shteyngart

American authors Jonathan Lethem and Gary Shteyngart are in conversation with Samira Ahmed

• 45 mins

Blithe Spirit, Strong Leadership and Military Intervention, Brain Surgery

Samira Ahmed discusses Blithe Spirit, military intervention and brain surgery.

• 45 mins

Live at Southbank Centre: Childhood

Frank Field MP joins Philip Dodd for a discussion about different aspects of childhood.

• 45 mins

Live at Southbank Centre: A Charm Offensive

Stephen Bayley, Rachel Johnson, AL Kennedy and Philip Dodd discuss what we mean by charm.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Seven Samurai

Matthew Sweet and guests including Ian Christie and SF Said on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

• 45 mins

Live at Southbank Centre: EM Forster

South African novelist Damon Galgut joins Rana Mitter to discuss the career of EM Forster.

• 45 mins

Live at Southbank Centre: Contemporary Curating, World Thinkers, The Language of Peace

With Anne McElvoy on displaying art and design, World Thinkers and the language of peace.

• 45 mins

Policing: Fact and Fiction

Matthew Sweet explores depictions of policing and corruption with playwright Roy Williams.

• 45 mins

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk talks to Philip Dodd about his writing career and his views of modern Turkey.

• 45 mins

Is War Good for Us?

Anne McElvoy explores the impact of war, Afghan elections and childhood violence.

• 45 mins

Betty Balfour Profile, James Lovelock, Peter Buwalda

Lucy Porter and Bryony Dixon profile silent film star Betty Balfour with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Originality

Nicholas Penny, Simon Stephens and Geoff Mulgan join Philip Dodd to discuss originality.

• 45 mins

Are We Living Through a New 18th Century?

Philip Dodd explores the parallels between the 18th-century London and now.

• 45 mins

18th-Century Power Politics

With Anne McElvoy. Historians including Amanda Foreman on 18th-century monarchy and power.

• 45 mins

Mandeville's View of 18th-Century Economics

Matthew Sweet on the lessons about finance outlined in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees.

• 45 mins

18th-Century Crime and Punishment

Philip Dodd explores 18th-century attitudes to the law, crime and punishment.

• 45 mins

Dame Janet Suzman

Actress and director Dame Janet Suzman is in extended conversation with Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Stealing Banksy? Vice Media, Chris Marker Profile

Samira Ahmed asks who owns street art, and whether it should be up for sale.

• 45 mins

Eighteenth-Century Sexual Politics

Philip Dodd explores the sexual mores of 18th-century England.

• 45 mins

The Radiophonic Workshop

Matthew Sweet meets members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

• 44 mins

Thom Gunn's Poetry, Michael Cunningham

Samira Ahmed discusses the poems of Thom Gunn, who died in 2004.

• 45 mins

Charles Kingsley's Water Babies, Edward St Aubyn

Matthew Sweet discusses Charles Kingsley and is joined by writer Edward St Aubyn.

• 45 mins

Eleanor Marx, David Henry Hwang

Philip Dodd meets playwright David Henry Hwang, plus Rachel Holmes discusses Eleanor Marx.

• 45 mins

Representing cities - in politics and plays

Anne McElvoy looks at how cities are represented in politics and in theatre.

• 45 mins

Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki, Simon Armitage's version of The Iliad

Matthew Sweet reviews Godzilla and The Wind Rises, plus Lily Cole in The Last Days of Troy

• 45 mins

Ivan Klima, the East-West divide in Europe, Science Fiction in Theatre

Philip Dodd talks to Czech novelist Ivan Klima and asks if Europe always needs an East.

• 45 mins

Nick Payne's Incognito, Penny Dreadful on TV, Helen McCarthy and Baroness Neville-Jones on Female Diplomats

Anne McElvoy talks about the brain to Nick Payne; Victorian Gothic on TV in Penny Dreadful

• 45 mins

John Clare, Jimmy Wales and the Right to be Forgotten, Borowczyk Retrospective

Iain Sinclair talks to Matthew Sweet about a walk to mark John Clare's death 150 years ago

• 45 mins

Writers and their notebooks

Lawrence Norfolk, AS Byatt, Wendy Cope, Bidisha and David Mitchell on writers' notebooks.

• 45 mins

Essay writing, Tim Winton

Anne McElvoy looks at the resurgence of non-fiction writing and the essay as a form.

• 45 mins