Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer

Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.

• 45 mins

Learning from Sweden

From IKEA to Bergman and ABBA - Matthew Sweet looks at Sweden's impact on Britain.

• 45 mins

Japan and Nature

The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Rashomon

David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.

• 44 mins

Tokyo Idols and Urban life

Tomoyuki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.

• 45 mins

America: Inequality & Race

Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.

• 45 mins

Marxism

Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.

• 45 mins

Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars

Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.

• 45 mins

Out of control?

Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight, with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.

• 45 mins

Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.

• 44 mins

What is Speech?

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.

• 45 mins

John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism

Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.

• 45 mins

Designing the future

Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.

• 45 mins

Jordan B Peterson

Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.

• 45 mins

Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

• 45 mins

The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate

Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.

• 45 mins

Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall

Landscape in motion plus how mountain climbing inspired a physicist and photographers.

• 45 mins

Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas

Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.

• 45 mins

American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths

Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman, and the careers picked by psychopaths.

• 45 mins

The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.

• 45 mins

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university.

• 45 mins

The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president

Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.

• 45 mins

Mark Lilla, Owen Hatherley, Gulzaar Barn

Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs a rethink and Gulzaar Barn on medical trials

• 45 mins

Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

Philip Dodd on the intellectual dark web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray and Ed Husain.

• 45 mins

The Piano and Love

Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

The Word For World Is Forest

Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel and discusses the Paul Foot Award.

• 45 mins

Windrush, Forests in Art, South African Jazz

Colin Grant, Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari

• 45 mins

Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas

The man who loved our trees and woods and his ideas about what they might become.

• 45 mins

The Working Lunch and Food in History

How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.

• 45 mins

The body, past and present

Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.

• 45 mins