Deserts

Matthew Sweet discusses deserts with writers Geoff Dyer and Laurence Scott.

• 45 mins

Scotland, Wales and the Ukraine, Lidudumalingani

Anne McElvoy discusses Welsh links to Ukraine, plus Welsh fiction since devolution.

• 45 mins

Liverpool Art Biennial

Matthew Sweet and critic Natalie Haynes report from the Liverpool Biennial.

• 45 mins

War and Modern Memory

Philip Dodd discusses war and modern memory.

• 45 mins

Brazilian Culture, Saying the Unsayable, Addiction, Raqib Shaw

Anne McElvoy looks ahead to the Rio Olympics, discussing Brazilian culture.

• 45 mins

Aphra Behn, 1066 and the South Coast, Mark Thompson

Anne McElvoy discusses Aphra Behn at the RSC and a festival marking 1066.

• 45 mins

Thames Estuary Festival, Jatinder Verma, Arne Næss

From Dickens & wartime defences to Doctor Who, Matthew Sweet explores the Thames estuary

• 45 mins

Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson

Philip Dodd is joined by artist Edward Burtynsky and playwright Ella Hickson.

• 45 mins

Shelina Janmohamed, Edward Ardizzone's Art, Jewish identity in fiction

With Anne McElvoy. Including Shelina Janmohamed and a discussion on Edward Ardizzone's art

• 45 mins

American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks, Gary Younge, Abstract Expressionism

With dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, plus gun culture and abstract expressionism at the RA.

• 45 mins

Medieval Manuscripts, Emma Donoghue, The Story of Boris Vian

With a discussion about medieval illuminated manuscripts, plus author Emma Donoghue.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: People Power - John Bew, Alison Light, Kwasi Kwarteng, Helen Lewis

Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah

Anne McElvoy debates success, the subject for a Third Programme debate in 1967.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: Fiction in 1946

Benjamin Markovits, Lara Feigel and Kevin Jackson discuss the best fiction of 1946.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla, Drugs in the German Reich, Board Games

Rana Mitter discusses drugs and the Nazis, migration, and the metamorphosis of gaming.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: HG Wells

As the 2016 London Literature Festival opens, Matthew Sweet chairs an HG Wells discussion.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

Authors Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman are in conversation with Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Outsiders and Colin Wilson, The Vulgar, Norse Sagas

Including Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation, fashion at the Barbican and Norse gods.

• 45 mins

Sound Frontiers: Teju Cole

Writer Teju Cole talks to Philip Dodd about Baldwin, Boko Haram and Black Lives Matter.

• 45 mins

Caravaggio, Bob Dylan, Dario Fo, Lenin's Train Journey

Including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo's plays and Caravaggio's art.

• 45 mins

Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent film classics

• 45 mins

Paul Nash, George Szirtes, Hungary 1956 and now

With a graphic novel based on Paul Nash's dreams, plus religion and revolution in Hungary.

• 45 mins

Artes Mundi Prize, Harriet Walter, Amitav Ghosh, Edmund Richardson

With a review of the 2016 Artes Mundi show, actress Harriet Walter and author Amitav Ghosh

• 45 mins

Richard Hakluyt, Man Booker Prize, Chickens in the Anthropocene, Shirley Jackson

Includes Richard Hakluyt's legacy, chickens and the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

• 45 mins

South African Art: William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Gavin Jantjes.

William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.

• 45 mins

Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art

With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.

• 45 mins

Whose Book Is it Anyway?

Anne McElvoy and her panel of guests explore the rise of reading in Britain.

• 45 mins

Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant. Yuval Noah Harari.

Linda Grant and Stephen Poliakoff join Philip Dodd to discuss post-World War II Britain.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Waverley

Rana Mitter presents a special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley.

• 45 mins

Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All

Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch. Plus Victorian amusements.

• 45 mins