Born in 1819: Whitman, Melville and Ward Howe

Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.

• 44 mins

Chaucer, Bernardine Evaristo

Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.

• 44 mins

Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic and the Mind.

Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns with Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias

• 44 mins

Rivers and geopolitics

Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.

• 44 mins

Rivers, poetry and ecology

An anthropologist, a poet, an archaeologist and an angler reflect on the culture of rivers

• 44 mins

Sebald, Anti-semitism, Carolyn Forche

The walking and photographs of WG Sebald and an exhibition of money and Jewish history.

• 44 mins

Censorship and sex

Naomi Wolf discusses the criminalisation of love with presenter Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy

Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos, and researchers Gulzaar Barn and Ella Parry-Davies.

• 44 mins

2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy.

• 44 mins

Homi K Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

• 44 mins

Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement.

• 44 mins

Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay

Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.

• 44 mins

AI and creativity: what makes us human?

A discussion hosted by Matthew Sweet at the Barbican's exhibition AI More Than Human.

• 44 mins

Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?

A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI.

• 44 mins

Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture

Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision and how our own is shaping up.

• 44 mins

Breaking Down the Barriers

The cultural contribution of Muslim women, and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane.

• 44 mins

Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement

Artist, archaeologists, a writer and a historian of the face make the invisible visible.

• 44 mins

Afropean identities, Filming the Arab spring

Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Landmark: Finnegans Wake

Matthew Sweet discusses James Joyce's groundbreaking novel of 1939.

• 44 mins

Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali

Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.

• 44 mins

Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak

Matthew Sweet talks to two campaigning women: a writer from Turkey and an animal expert.

• 44 mins

Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming

The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared.

• 44 mins

Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.

Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction

• 44 mins

Language and Belonging

With Guy Gunaratne, Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri and Deena Mohamed.

• 44 mins

Russia and Fear.

Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past and present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze

• 44 mins

Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.

Philip Dodd visits the US rust-belt city of Cleveland.

• 44 mins

Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good

Matthew Sweet and guests on Iris Murdoch's thought and writing (15 Jul 1919–8 Feb 1999).

• 44 mins

Caine Prize, Ivo van Hove, Female desire

Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.

• 44 mins

An insider's view of war

Ex-marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman on al-Qaeda and the Iraq War.

• 44 mins

Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism.

• 44 mins