Whale Watching

Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.

• 44 mins

Existential Risk

Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests.

• 44 mins

Stonehenge History

Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths.

• 44 mins

China, Freud, War and Sci-Fi

From AI and fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.

• 44 mins

Hitchhiking

Matthew Sweet considers examples from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Polish tokens.

• 44 mins

Pankaj Mishra, Research into Indian history

Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about four friends in an age of upheaval.

• 44 mins

Artists' models and fame

Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's Woman in White, new radio ballads. Shahidha Bari hosts.

• 44 mins

Perfecting the Body

Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Xine Yao and Harry Parker discuss.

• 44 mins

Climate change, nature and art

Ingrid Pollard, Julian Perry, Patricia Dominguez, Will Abberley and Eleanor Barraclough.

• 44 mins

The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

Lisa Mullen & guests mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of London's Barbican centre

• 44 mins

The Generation Gap

Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoyé talk family histories with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Sisters

The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Lucy Holland, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

New research into women's history

The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism. Naomi Paxton hosts.

• 44 mins

Blackmail and Shame

Mark Ravenhill on staging the play on which Hitchcock based Blackmail.

• 44 mins

The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture

How an East German creative writing class fought the cold war - was their poetry any good?

• 44 mins

Vikings

From the Victorian craze to modern takes on Norse myths, Netflix and archaeological finds.

• 44 mins

John Maynard Keynes

From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes.

• 44 mins

After Dark Festival: Equinox

Finding meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.

• 44 mins

Dark Places

A poet, crime writer, theologian and marine biologist explore darkness.

• 44 mins

Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee

Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 martial arts film made before Bruce Lee's death aged 32.

• 44 mins

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap

Confronting the man who jilted you is the plot of this 1960s Argentine expressionist film

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio.

• 44 mins

Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment

Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Hannah Greig, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Kirkland-Robertson.

• 44 mins

China: World Politics, Ink Art and Insomnia

Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA.

• 44 mins

Grief

Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.

• 44 mins

Ships and History

Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards and Tom Nancollas.

• 44 mins

Housework

Gender, class and domestic tasks. Matthew pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in.

• 44 mins

Preserving our heritage

From knitting patterns to greetings cards: Naomi Paxton looks at a series of UK archives

• 44 mins

Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound

Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?

• 44 mins

Teaching and Inspiration

Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.

• 44 mins