Revisit: Arundhati Roy

The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.

• 44 mins

Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam

A pair of authors due to be at the Bradford Literature Festival compare notes on writing.

• 44 mins

Tudor Virtual Reality

What is the link between VR dinosaurs & a Tudor wall painting of the Judgement of Solomon?

• 13 mins

Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK & Lebanon

• 13 mins

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

Tom Smith looks at the early pioneers of this music scene & arguments about whiteness now

• 14 mins

Digging Deep

Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.

• 14 mins

Not Quite Jean Muir

How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills

• 14 mins

Dam Fever and The Diaspora

How do large dam projects attract such adoration, despite lessons of twentieth century?

• 14 mins

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

The screenwriter and novelist talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting Britain in his work.

• 44 mins

Gambling, good leadership and economic history

Anne McElvoy looks at betting, economics and the leadership of US presidents

• 45 mins

Facing Facts

From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces

• 12 mins

Prison Break

New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks is it ever ok to escape from prison?

• 14 mins

What does a black history curriculum look like?

Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach?

• 45 mins

The consolation of philosophy and stories

Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway

• 45 mins

Pogroms and prejudice

Brendan McGeever looks at anti-semitism from Russian attacks to the present day

• 14 mins

Egyptian Satire

The power of humour in protest.

• 12 mins

How do we build a new masculinity ?

Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare & Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet

• 43 mins

Magic

Matthew Sweet and guests conjure a conversation about the importance and appeal of magic

• 46 mins

New Thinking:Nature Writing

From Gilbert White to lockdown blogs - why we need to spend more time in nature.

• 43 mins

Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains

Daniel Levitin explores new thinking about the relationship between music and memory

• 59 mins

Dada and the power of Nonsense

A project to re-imagine the Dada arts movement now, and reflections on satire and nonsense

• 45 mins

Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland

Politics and friendship and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

• 45 mins

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

• 45 mins

Wole Soyinka's writing

Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike & Oladipo Agboluaje discuss the Nigerian author's life and work

• 45 mins

Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky

Pat Barker & Giles Fraser on Russian lit/Edith Hall & Barry Cunliffe on the classical sea

• 41 mins

The Radiophonic Workshop

Matthew Sweet meets members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

• 43 mins

Piranesi and disturbing archecture

Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of Matthew Sweet's guests

• 45 mins

New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History

Eleanor Barraclough explores the significance of the much mythologised Pilgrim voyage.

• 48 mins

Family ties and reshaping history

From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of ‘WEIRD’ people, 3 authors look at kin

• 44 mins

Get Carter

Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges

• 45 mins