Revenge: My Cousin Rachel, Natalie Haynes, Islam Issa

Matthew Sweet discusses the film My Cousin Rachel and explores revenge in Shakespeare.

• 45 mins

Political Sketch Writing, Enclosure Acts, Emma Butcher on Branwell Bronte, Pushkin House Book Prize

Anne McElvoy and guests explore the style of the election and the job of sketch writers.

• 45 mins

Will Self, RD Laing, Mandy

Will Self talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel. Plus a film about RD Laing.

• 45 mins

Narcissism: Will Storr, Olivia Sudjic, Tom Jackson and Sophie Scott

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our perceived obsession with the self.

• 45 mins

Churchill, Pocahontas, The Idiot

Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.

• 45 mins

Tom McCarthy, Jacobitism, Satirical Indexes, A Museum of Modern Nature

Anne McElvoy hears about new exhibitions on Bonnie Prince Charlie and nature.

• 45 mins

Terrorism

Rana Mitter and guests debate fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.

• 45 mins

Man and Machine, Wyndham Lewis, Simon Beard

Philip Dodd explores AI with Garry Kasparov. Plus vorticism and overpopulation.

• 45 mins

Canada 150: Robert Lepage, Katherine Ryan

Philip Dodd's guests are comedian Katherine Ryan and playwright/performer Robert Lepage.

• 45 mins

Canada 150: Identity - Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson, Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk

New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Canada in TV, poems and art.

• 45 mins

Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV, Vahni Capildeo, Shubbak Festival 2017

Matthew Sweet discusses the Canadian producer who transformed British TV drama.

• 45 mins

Food

Matthew Sweet and his guests explore the joys of food.

• 45 mins

Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on wild swimming, Jake Arnott on Joe Orton

Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett discuss the literary power of the sea.

• 45 mins

Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha, Sappho

Including the Punjabi Romeo and Juliet and the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence.

• 45 mins

Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia

Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy. Plus the 2017 Caine Prize.

• 45 mins

Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US

Including the art of the black power movement and the history of racist ideas in the US.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy

Matthew Sweet and guests debate the contemporary relevance of ideas of poet Matthew Arnold

• 45 mins

Partition: Novelists' views of India and Pakistan now

Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk to Anne McElvoy.

• 45 mins

Washing in Public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

Public pools, the 'steamie' and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

• 45 mins

Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the Kathe Kollwitz show in Birmingham.

• 45 mins

Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.

Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum and Serhii Plokhy about Russian-Ukrainian history.

• 45 mins

Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.

Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.

• 45 mins

Royal Society Science Book Prize. Adrian Owen. Science in India.

Matthew Sweet looks at the writing of science and the Royal Society Science Book Prize.

• 45 mins

Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World

Author Bernard MacLaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break.

• 45 mins

Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.

• 45 mins

Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.

• 45 mins

The importance of networks; the art of dance

Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

• 45 mins

Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair.

• 45 mins

Blade Runner. Ghost Stories.

Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 and visits haunted places in Portsmouth

• 45 mins