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).

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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

New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith

• 44 mins

Book Parts and Difficulty

Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

• 44 mins

James Ellroy

Philip Dodd is in conversation with American author James Ellroy.

• 44 mins

Tolerance, censorship and free speech

Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen and Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation.

Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas.

• 44 mins

Back to the '80s

From Stranger Things to Stephen King's It - Matthew Sweet and guests revisit '80s culture.

• 44 mins

Surveillance and Secrets from the Archives

Matthew Sweet on surveillance capitalism, The Third Man and Stieg Larsson's archive.

• 44 mins

Anxiety

Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist Héctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill

Interviews w/ illustrator Gerald Scarfe & artist Kiki Smith+ Caryl Churchill's new plays.

• 44 mins

Mark Haddon

Anne McElvoy talks to Mark Haddon about his career and latest novel The Porpoise.

• 44 mins

From the Spains to Latinx, including Iain Sinclair's Peruvian Journey

Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.

• 44 mins

Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day

Who holds the power? US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art

Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan talks art with Philip Dodd.

• 44 mins

Modern Dutch Writing

Laurence Scott looks at the way Dutch writers are addressing history and contemporary life

• 44 mins

East Meets West

Historian Tom Holland, critic Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, and artist Inci Eviner.

• 44 mins

2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts

Anne McElvoy talks prehistory with archaeologist Mike Pitts and artist Renee So.

• 44 mins

The Woolly episode.

From Sean the Sheep & Damien Hirst to clothiers & a knitted bikini. Shahida Bari presents.

• 44 mins

Dictators

Matthew Sweet and guests on Chaplin's 1941 film, The Great Dictator, and rising populism.

• 44 mins