Violence in Culture

Frances Fyfield, Richard Bessel, Peter Stanford and Mayura Deshpande join Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Landmark: The Tin Drum

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss Gunter Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum.

• 45 mins

What does Global Shakespeare Mean?

Philip Dodd asks what we understand Shakespeare to mean around the world.

• 45 mins

Caryl Phillips, Stanley Wells, Ah, Wilderness!

Including Caryl Phillips, Shakespearean actors, South African protests and Ah, Wilderness!

• 45 mins

English Civil War, Indigenous Australia

Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape.

• 45 mins

Alberto Manguel, Alice in Wonderland, Fashionable Victorian Writers

Alberto Manguel talks to Matthew Sweet about curiosity and a lifetime of reading.

• 45 mins

Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James

Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman.

• 45 mins

Julian Barnes, Bapsi Sidhwa, light-inspired poetry

With Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes and Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.

• 45 mins

Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings

Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.

• 45 mins

Antony Sher

Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher.

• 45 mins

Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton

Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton.

• 45 mins

Agnes Varda, Gut Instinct, Scientific Research into the Gut

Matthew Sweet on the idea of 'gut instinct'. Plus the ballet Woolf Works and Agnes Varda.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy

Prue Shaw, Sean O'Brien, Nick Havely and Kevin Jackson discuss Dante's The Divine Comedy.

• 45 mins

High Society, Xinran and China's One-Child Policy, Decisive UK Elections

Anne McElvoy presents a review of High Society at the Old Vic. Plus Chinese writer Xinran.

• 45 mins

Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop, Mammoth Cloning, Fareed Zakaria

Colm Toibin on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Beth Shapiro on cloning mammoths.

• 45 mins

Alain Mabanckou, Joseph Stiglitz

With novelist Alain Mabanckou on growing up in the Republic of Congo. Plus Joseph Stiglitz

• 45 mins

Fulfilment, Beowulf, The Beaux' Stratagem

Including a debate about fulfilment, actor Julian Glover and the play The Beaux' Stratagem

• 45 mins

Theodore Zeldin, Mona Eltahawy

Philip Dodd is joined by scholar Theodore Zeldin and journalist Mona Eltahawy.

• 45 mins

Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi, Tom Holland

Rana Mitter and guests Azar Nafisi, David Brooks and Tom Holland discuss humility.

• 45 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2015 Launch at the Hay Festival

Rana Mitter introduces the 2015 New Generation Thinkers.

• 45 mins

Johanna Hamilton on 1971, Male Friendships: Steve Toltz, AD Miller, Richard Bean

Playwright Richard Bean joins Matthew Sweet to discuss male friendships.

• 45 mins

Kate Grenville

Rana Mitter is joined by novelist Kate Grenville, who talks about her new book.

• 45 mins

Susan Abulhawa, Napoleon, Eugenia Cheng on Maths

Dr Eugenia Cheng discusses maths and playing the piano with Anne McElvoy.

• 30 mins

Fairgrounds and Freaks, Carsten Holler

Matthew Sweet explores Carsten Holler's art and discusses the idea of the 'freak'.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Saul Bellow's Herzog

Martin Amis, Zachary Leader and Sarah Churchwell discuss Saul Bellow's novel Herzog.

• 45 mins

Fighting Art, Othello at the RSC, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Anne McElvoy on a new history painting exhibition at Tate Britain. Plus a new Othello.

• 45 mins

John Boorman

Director John Boorman talks about his film-making career with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Jonathan Sacks, Milan Kundera Novel, Stephen Adly Guirgis Play

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence.

• 45 mins

Muriel Spark, Digital Life, Diversity in British Poetry

New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott talks to Rana Mitter about living in a digital world

• 45 mins

Political and Bardic Traditions in Wales

Matthew Sweet examines Welsh politics and poetry with Gwyneth Lewis and Iain Sinclair.

• 45 mins