Drugs and Consciousness

Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head?

• 46 mins

Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future

Historian Tom Devine, Colombian novelist, Hector Abad and economist Paul Collier

• 44 mins

Discrimination

The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.

• 45 mins

Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires

Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes

• 38 mins

Re-writing C20th British Philosophy

Shahidha Bari with news of the Man Booker Prize and discussion about female philosophers

• 45 mins

Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.

Rana Mitter explores identity forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire

• 50 mins

Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands

Marie Darrieussecq, Lisa Mullen, Dafydd Daniel on magic and dystopias with Matthew Sweet.

• 46 mins

Playing God

Patrick Barlow on his play The Messiah, Daisy Black on Stoke's new medieval mystery play

• 45 mins

Mike Leigh

The film director talks to Matthew Sweet as his historical epic Peterloo opens in cinemas

• 45 mins

The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.

Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.

• 45 mins

From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage

Reconstructing the thought-world of the middle ages

• 53 mins

The Memes that Make Us Laugh

Julian Baggini, Tiffany Watt Smith & Christopher Harding

• 45 mins

Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.

The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago and suffragette Punch and Judy.

• 45 mins

Re-thinking the Human Condition

Thomas Woolston Free Thinker, Isaiah Berlin philosopher plus memory and neuroscience.

• 46 mins

Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.

Gillian Clarke. Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.

• 51 mins

Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night

Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey , Tibor Fischer& Damian Catani on Céline's masterpiece

• 48 mins

Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War

Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?

• 46 mins

Why are we silent when conflict is loud?

Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?

• 44 mins

Lost Words and Language

Shahidha Bari looks at research showcased in the Being Human Festival at UK universities

• 45 mins

Death rituals

From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way doctors cope.

• 45 mins

Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research.

From ancient religion to London's Greek Cypriot community & the 29 bus route

• 50 mins

What kind of history should we write?

Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter

• 44 mins

The Left Behind

Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, populism and immigration

• 44 mins

Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.

POTUS, crisis management and ambition - Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books

Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw

• 45 mins

Slavery Stories

A long lost classic now published, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted novel & new research

• 58 mins

Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.

The director of Get Carter talks to Matthew Sweet about writing his own crime stories.

• 45 mins

Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV

• 45 mins

Is there a great divide between the arts and science?

Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.

• 46 mins

Are we being manipulated?

Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders

• 44 mins