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

Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life

Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator.

• 44 mins

Art, Kew, a symphony and nature

Artist Mat Collishaw, composer Jimmy López Bellido, academics Vid Simoniti and Sarah Casey

• 44 mins

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023

Directors of the National Portrait Gallery, London and MACBA, Barcelona join Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

Being Blonde

Matthew Sweet and Professor Lynda Nead explore links between Diana Dors and Ruth Ellis.

• 44 mins

Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork

Nandini Das visits Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean in Oxford and talks to a jeweller.

• 44 mins

Humours and the body

From mitochondria and 16th-century cancer treatments to breath, blood and Bach cantatas.

• 44 mins

Valis and Philip K Dick

A weirdly autobiographical science fiction novel from 1981, inspired by hallucinations.

• 44 mins

Sankofa and Afrofuturism

Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani and sculptor Zak Ové with Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

Sleep

John Gallagher gets sleeping tips from research pioneers and early modern history

• 44 mins

Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking

Matthew Sweet hears about research into the singer and friend of JS Mill feat. live songs!

• 44 mins

Robert Aickman

On Halloween, Matthew Sweet & guests discuss supernatural fiction, conservation and canals

• 44 mins

Korea and Japan

Chris Harding reads from Yu Miri's new novel, The End of August.

• 44 mins

African identity via China and photography

Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.

• 44 mins

The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023

As the IWM unveils its new art galleries, Anne McElvoy & guests discuss photographing war

• 44 mins

Shakespeare as inspiration

From Bollywood films and Pre-Raphaelite art to productions of Shakespeare in places at war

• 44 mins

How and why we talk

John Gallagher hears about Gaelic consonants, tongue shapes and accent prejudice

• 44 mins

Food

Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality.

• 44 mins

Women, art and activism

Naomi Paxton and guests on exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Barbican and Modern Art Oxford

• 44 mins

Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and others discuss the politics of this 1973 fable.

• 44 mins

Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners

Selvon's evocative 1956 novel discussed at the British Library by Shahidha Bari & guests.

• 44 mins

Postwar Germany

Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of World War II.

• 44 mins

Lorca

As the National Theatre stages The House of Bernarda Alba, Rana Mitter discusses Lorca

• 44 mins

Libraries

From Alexandria to mid-Wales, Laurence Scott and guests look at library history.

• 44 mins