John McGrath's Scottish Drama

Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

• 44 mins

Victorian Streets

Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th-century city streets in our heads the right one?

• 44 mins

South African writing

Damon Galgut discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922.

• 44 mins

Slow film and ecology

Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film about rice made over 18 years.

• 44 mins

Sheffield

Reimagining the city through Chris Bush's drama trilogy about its oldest scissor factory.

• 44 mins

ETA Hoffmann

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician.

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Late works

Dame Sheila Hancock, viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer on endings.

• 44 mins

Belief, Habit and Religion

Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history.

• 44 mins

David Chalmers and Iain McGilchrist

Two leading thinkers who are investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world.

• 44 mins

Vampires and the Penny Dreadful

Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

• 44 mins

Writing about money

Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics

• 44 mins

The Black Fantastic

How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.

• 44 mins

Women Warriors and Power Brokers

Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez share new research with Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

France, music hall and history

An outdoor history of France and a look inside popular French theatre's view on Britain.

• 44 mins

The Daleks

Matthew Sweet's guests include the voice of the Daleks and the Doctor's granddaughter.

• 44 mins

Satyajit Ray's films

Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta and Chandak Sengoopta and Rana Mitter discuss Ray.

• 44 mins

What language did Columbus speak?

John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th-century Age of Exploration.

• 44 mins

The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.

• 44 mins

Immortality

Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature film and myth

• 44 mins

Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

The Normans

Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today.

• 44 mins

The Black Country, past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests record with an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival.

• 44 mins

Ibsen

New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays by Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters.

• 44 mins

Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance

Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

John Cowper Powys

John Gray, Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring discuss Powys's writing.

• 44 mins

My Neighbour Totoro

Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

• 44 mins

Female power and influence past and present

Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro.

• 44 mins

How We Read

Matthew Sweet explores our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text.

• 44 mins

Miles Davis and On The Corner

Matthew Sweet and guests explore Davis's genre-stretching album, released on 11 Oct 1972.

• 44 mins