Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures

Anne McElvoy surveys current thinking on big political ideas and ideology.

• 44 mins

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & anthropology pioneers

• 44 mins

Cows in culture and soil

Are cows the answer to depleted soil or the problem? With farmer and author James Rebanks

• 54 mins

Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

How knowledge of poets’ lives shapes how we view their work; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

• 45 mins

Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes

Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes

• 44 mins

New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois

Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history

• 44 mins

The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century

Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

New Thinking about Museums

From VR Vikings & military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections

• 44 mins

Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid

Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk about their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival

• 44 mins

Post Truth & Derrida

What is Derrida's influence in the 'post-truth' age?

• 53 mins

Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.

A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet

• 49 mins

Polari Prize winners

Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta

• 44 mins

The Writing of Aime Cesaire

Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness

• 44 mins

The post-Covid city

How the pandemic has transformed our use and experience of urban space

• 45 mins

Individualism and Community

From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA, carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts.

• 45 mins

Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic

Shahidha Bari discuss the audience in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests

• 45 mins

War in fact and fiction

Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture

A history of disability: court fools, political activism, and the 19th century novel.

• 43 mins

Billy Wilder

Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot

• 45 mins

Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters

Matthew Sweet on charity shops, 'stuff', musical typewriters and the Being Human Festival

• 45 mins

The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020

What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?

• 44 mins

Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse

What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Face Transplants and Researching Nose Injuries

Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

• 43 mins

New Thinking: Films and Research

Films investigating melting glaciers, to refugee camps, public bathrooms, & more.

• 43 mins

Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

Helen Mort and Blake Morrison talk mentoring. Oulipo: rules for writing in 1960s Paris.

• 45 mins

Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong & USA. Is confrontational politics is here to stay?

• 44 mins

Should biographers imitate their subjects?

The perils of writing biographies of scientist JS Haldane & Indian mystic Mother Meera

• 13 mins

Byron, celebrity and fan mail

Would Byron have embraced Twitter?

• 14 mins

Bedrooms

How have our bedrooms changed from sleeping space to work space?

• 44 mins

Beastly Politics

Is man the only political beast?

• 13 mins