True Venetian

Women's Work

Focusing on the numerous female artisans who once serviced the Venetian textile industry.

• 14 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book: Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn talks about translation and writing a book that has been written before.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Philippe Sands

International lawyer and author Philippe Sands explains how he writes a book.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Sarah Harper

Gerontologist and ageing expert Sarah Harper talks about the accessibility of academia.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Dr Martin Johnes

Dr Martin Johnes discusses the art of making statistics and figures worth reading.

• 15 mins

Hay Essays: How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book - Scarlett Thomas

At 2017's Hay Festival, author Scarlett Thomas talks about how to write a book.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Marcel Duchamp

Heather Jones on the war connections and controversy around Marcel Duchamp's work Fountain

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Gertrude Bell

Tarek Osman considers the writing of Gertrude Bell.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times

Joanna Bourke on Siegfried Sassoon and his celebrated protest against the conflict.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Mata Hari's Final Performance

Elif Shafak on the elaborate and provocative performances and photo shoots of Mata Hari.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 4

Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump

Santanu Das explores the poetic world of Bristol-born Isaac Rosenberg.

• 15 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding

Corin Throsby explores attitudes towards breastfeeding.

• 18 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

A Focus on Fasting

Christopher Kissane from the London School of Economics explores the history of fasting.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

Resisting Tyranny

Jonathan Healey on changing ways of resistance to state control and prevailing ideology.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

A Tale of Restoration Murder, Barbarous and Inhumane

Tom Charlton explores press reporting, scandal and politics in the 17th century.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2017

Dining with the Nightmare

Daisy Hay on the role in the history of English Romanticism of publisher Joseph Johnson.

• 14 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

The Boys

Simon Callow on Micheal MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards, founders of Dublin's Gate Theatre.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

Writer Stella Duffy on growing up as a lesbian in New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

WH Auden and Chester Kallman

Gregory Woods on the tumultuous but enduring relationship of WH Auden and Chester Kallman.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

The Loves of Elizabeth Bishop

Neel Mukherjee explores the two great loves of American poet Elizabeth Bishop's life.

• 15 mins

The Love that Wrote Its Name

Colquhoun and MacBryde: More Lasting than Life

Louise Welsh on the relationship between artists Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde.

• 15 mins

The Culture of Partition

John Siddique

John Siddique reflects on the 70-year legacy of Partition as reflected in Indian culture.

• 15 mins

The Culture of Partition

Amina Yaqin

Amina Yaqin reflects on the 70-year legacy of partition as reflected in Pakistani culture.

• 15 mins

Paradise Lost

Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien on how bold Milton's Paradise Lost was, 350 years on from being published.

• 15 mins

Paradise Lost

Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson on Milton's 3-D epic poem first published 350 years ago.

• 15 mins

Paradise Lost

Alice Goodman

Poet and priest Alice Goodman explores Milton's epic 350 years after it was published.

• 15 mins

Paradise Lost

Colin Burrow

Colin Burrow on why Paradise Lost, 350 years old, is still the best poem in English.

• 15 mins

Paradise Lost

Patrick McGuinness

Poet and critic Patrick McGuinness marks the 350th birthday of Milton's epic poem.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets 2 - An Actor's Life

Broadway Bound, Very Nearly

Michael Goldfarb finds himself working with Mike Nichols and almost making it to Broadway.

• 14 mins

Trip Sheets 2 - An Actor's Life

Cab Driving Dog Days

Michael Goldfarb remembers the hard slog of cab driving in an industry about to change.

• 15 mins