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

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

• 45 mins

Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty.

Shahidha Bari and guests debate the play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle and doubt.

• 45 mins

Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley.

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness.

• 45 mins

The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from The Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Marnie

Matthew Sweet explores memory and Marnie, of Graham's novel and Hitchcock's film fame.

• 45 mins

Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0

• 45 mins

Young Marx, Marxism.

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

• 45 mins

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner.

Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art.

Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room

• 45 mins

Britten and Radio.

BBC Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.

• 45 mins

The pros and cons of Swearing

Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.

• 45 mins

Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.

• 44 mins

Soviet Histories. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Svetlana Alexievich on Soviet oral history as literature, and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

• 45 mins

Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Boris Akunin and Zinovy Zinik talk with Anne McElvoy, recorded at Pushkin House in London.

• 45 mins

Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest

Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.

• 59 mins