Nature Memoirs

Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley.

• 44 mins

Michel Piccoli

Matthew Sweet on the French actor who worked with Buñuel, Varda, Ferreri and Godard.

• 44 mins

Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes

Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu.

• 44 mins

Adam Smith

From the East India Company to Silicon Valley: the big ideas in his tercentennial year.

• 44 mins

Ideas about health

Gavin Francis on Thomas Browne, Polly Morland on John Berger, Matt Smith on mental health

• 44 mins

Portraits

The NPG re-opens. A look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary and oral history.

• 44 mins

The Kitchen: art, film, life

Sarah Kent, Marianne Hem Eriksen, Melanie Williams and Angela Hui join Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The book of the Sturm und Drang generation. Anne McElvoy explores the ideas behind it.

• 44 mins

Diva

As the V&A opens an exhibition about performers, Naomi Paxton discusses what makes a diva.

• 44 mins

Gut instinct

From gut feelings in your stomach to the language of disgust. Matthew Sweet hosts.

• 44 mins

Boyhood to Manhood

Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now.

• 44 mins

Julian the Apostate

We examine Rome's last pagan ruler via Ibsen's drama to apostasy in contemporary politics.

• 44 mins

Dystopian thinking

As Kay Dick's They opens at MIF, Matthew Sweet and guests trace the history of dystopias.

• 44 mins

A lively Tudor world

From needlework to marriage portraits to depicting music on the page.

• 44 mins

Liverpool Biennial and art at MIF

Catherine Fletcher talks to three artists with new works at the Liverpool Biennial.

• 44 mins

South Asia: poverty and princes

Historians Joya Chatterji and Tripurdaman Singh, plus the novels of Kamala Markandaya.

• 44 mins

Childhood and play

The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak.

• 44 mins

Oxford Philosophy

The influence of JL Austin, Gilbert Ryle, Elizabeth Anscombe, and later, Derek Parfit.

• 44 mins

Rock Follies

The groundbreaking 1970s TV drama reassessed with guests including actor Rula Lenska.

• 44 mins

The Wolfson Prize 2023

Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize.

• 44 mins

Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco

Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy tell Naomi Paxton about a 70s experimental writing group.

• 44 mins

The Red Shoes

Ahead of a BFI festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Powell and Pressburger's film

• 44 mins

Black Atlantic

Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

• 44 mins

Why go into space?

Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration.

• 44 mins

Notebooks and new technology

Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington.

• 44 mins

Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski

Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language

Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers.

• 44 mins

Hobbes and New Leviathans

John Gray on why rereading Hobbes can help us understand contemporary politics.

• 44 mins

Slavic culture and myth

Matthew Sweet looks at the origins of creatures like Baba Yaga, Banniks and Rusalkas.

• 44 mins

Refuge and National Poetry Day

Poets Momtaza Mehri, Julianknxx and historian Jesús Sanjurjo join Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins