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

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

• 44 mins

Romanticism revisited

Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Brontë under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.

• 44 mins

British Academy Book Prize 2022

Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

• 44 mins

Going Underground

Shahidha Bari and guests explore life and leisure underground.

• 44 mins

Oliver Postgate

Matthew Sweet with Daniel Postgate, Sandra Kerr, Neil Brand and Samira Ahmed.

• 44 mins

Dead languages

John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of ancient Pompeii

• 44 mins

Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk joins academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria.

• 44 mins

Ghostwatch

An examination of the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV broadcast from 1992.

• 44 mins

Alexander the Great

Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander.

• 44 mins

Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena, joins Anne McElvoy.

• 44 mins

John Knox

A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

• 44 mins