Landmark: Watership Down

An ecological fable about a perfect society? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.

• 44 mins

Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box

Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo, Stan and Ollie.

• 44 mins

Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette.

Ruskin, Bazalgette and Clough: Laurence Scott examines three of Victoria's class of 1819.

• 44 mins

Boredom

Shahidha Bari, Josh Cohen and Sam Goodman explore the value of doing nothing.

• 44 mins

Walls

Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall

• 44 mins

Tourism past and present

Must-see sights for post-Napoleonic War tourists, Cold War travellers and hot spots now.

• 44 mins

Icons

Do our heroes and heroines have to be perfect? We look at ikons, film idols & politicians.

• 44 mins

Oscars 2019

Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists.

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Slow Looking at Art

Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.

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Consent

How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.

• 44 mins

Art and Refugees from Nazi Germany

Writing about the Holocaust and the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain.

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Sea Goings

Julia Blackburn, Katie Paterson, Charlotte Runcie, the Cutty Sark.

• 44 mins

Street Culture, Protests, Food

Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.

• 44 mins

Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk.

• 44 mins

Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds.

Quassim Cassam and Simon Beard with Matthew, plus RW Fassbinder's 1970s TV sci-fi series.

• 44 mins

Spike Lee

The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Africa, Babel, China

Histories of West Africa, 20th-century China, and the art of translation.

• 44 mins

Love

The science and art of love. Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha

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Patti LuPone

The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian American roots.

• 44 mins

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

• 44 mins

Images of Japan

Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga.

• 44 mins

Jack the Ripper and women as victims

Hallie Rubenhold, Emma Jenkins, Dr Kate Lister and Ruth Ware join Matthew Sweet.

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Authority in the Era of Populism

Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid and Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

Laurence Scott and Will Self talk about redundant features in design.

• 44 mins

David Bailey, Don McCullin

Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

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Women, relationships and the law past and present

Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay.

• 44 mins

Is British Culture Getting Weirder? Free Thinking at the Late Junction Festival

Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner and William Fowler.

• 44 mins

The Council Estate in Culture

With George Shaw, Kader Attia, Dreda Say Mitchell, Katie Beswick and Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Partition, colonial power and the voices of 16th-century women

With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.

• 44 mins

Jhumpa Lahiri, Valeria Luiselli, George Szirtes

Two writers and a poet in conversation about language, migrants and personhood.

• 44 mins