Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

Can you solve all the problems of philosophy in one book? Shahidha Bari and guests debate.

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The Botanical Past

From paintings to the gardens of Kew, how a new plant collecting history is being written.

• 44 mins

Alice and Dreaming

Salman Rushdie is one of Matthew Sweet's guests for a conversation about the imagination.

• 44 mins

Can Artists Help Save the Planet?

From ice photos by Wayne Binitie to 140 ideas from artists collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

• 44 mins

Women's Art

Jennifer Higgie, Adjoa Osei, Veronica Ryan, and Lydia Yee talk to Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

Beryl Vertue

Matthew Sweet meets the Sherlock producer and ex-agent of Tony Hancock who has turned 90.

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How anthropology helps us understand the world

Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

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Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas

The work of Turner prize nominees, a Tiger Bay murder story, Under Milk Wood on stage.

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Displacement

Edmund de Waal and Frances Stonor Saunders discuss uncovering Jewish family stories.

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Masks

The role of masks in African traditions, Greek tragedy and Covid conspiracies

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Building London

Eric Parry and Alison Brooks; writers Fiona Mozley and SI Martin and pianist Belle Chen.

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Mid Century Modern

Shahidha Bari and guests look at labour saving devices and revamping the 1950s home.

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World's Fairs and the Future

Owen Hatherley, Emily MacGregor and Paul Greenhalgh go back to the future.

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Cornwall and Coastal Gothic

From crumbling tin mine towers to second homes: Laurence Scott on art, fiction and film.

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The Innovative Shape of Poems

Sandeep Parmar talks to poets Kayo Chingonyi, Paisley Rekdal and Dr Nasser Hussain.

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Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

Matthew Sweet and guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film

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The English country house party

Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?

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Epic Iran, Lost Cities and Proust

Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran, and why people abandon cities.

• 44 mins

Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between the arts and coal mining communities.

• 44 mins

Breathe

Writer James Nestor, musician Soweto Kinch, Forensic Architecture's Imani Jacqueline Brown

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

Guests including author Tom McCarthy join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'.

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Connecting with Nature

Music from thunder, art inspired by a dog walk; essays about a city wood and a rural field

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Bette Davis

As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star

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Dante's Visions

Art historian Martin Kemp and painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website

• 44 mins

The Glitch

Novelist Tom McCarthy joins Matthew Sweet to explore glitches and what they tell us.

• 44 mins

Belonging

A teacher's view, a Frankenstein-inspired ballet, outsider status and circus paintings.

• 44 mins

Hannah Arendt's exploration of totalitarianism

Why do Hannah Arendt's ideas continue to fire the imaginations of artists and thinkers?

• 44 mins

Dirk Bogarde

As The Servant is released on DVD, Matthew Sweet and guests explore Dirk Bogarde's career.

• 44 mins

Punk

Punk often caused offence. Shahidha Bari asks if that idea of rebellion resonates today.

• 44 mins

The continuing appeal of Tudor history

Philippa Gregory, Nandini Das, Susan Doran and Adam Roberts with Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins