New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale

Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals

• 13 mins

Northern Ireland

Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers

• 45 mins

Samuel Johnson's circle

Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we

• 45 mins

Napoleon the gardener and art thief

Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter

• 45 mins

Alison Bechdel

American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich

• 45 mins

Marlon James and Neil Gaiman

The two weavers of fantastical fiction sift through myths with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data

Lisa Mullen explores the way data can change our view of history & looks at conservation.

• 44 mins

Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings

Anne McElvoy explores the past and present of the transcontinental nation of Egypt

• 45 mins

The Wolfson History Prize 2021

Rana Mitter meets the six authors shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious history prize

• 45 mins

Ghosts of the Spanish civil war

Breaking the silence: filmmakers, a novelist and historian on the recent Spanish past.

• 45 mins

Who needs critics?

Matthew Sweet questions the critic's role while Vid Simoniti looks at algorithms and art.

• 45 mins

Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?

Was Nero really a victim of plots? Bulgaria's hidden past. Plus a novel about startups.

• 45 mins

Fashion, Art, and the Body

Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter, and Ekow Eshun join Shahidha Bari

• 45 mins

Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

Can one book solve all the problems of philosophy?

• 62 mins

New Thinking: The Botanical Past

From still life paintings to Kew Gardens, a new history of horticulture is being written

• 44 mins

Alice and Dreaming

Alice is asked in Wonderland, Why is a raven like a writing desk? Salman Rushdie explains

• 44 mins

Green Thinking: Can artists help save the planet?

From ice photos by Wayne Binitie to 140 ideas from artists collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

• 43 mins

Green Thinking: Future of Work

The future of work in a post-Covid-19 world and the implications for our environment.

• 26 mins

Green Thinking: Climate and Conflict

Is global warming increasingly to blame for conflict and disputes over land and resources?

• 26 mins

Green Thinking: Seascapes and Blue Gold

How will Climate Change impact the ocean and our relationship with it?

• 26 mins

Women's Art

Jennifer Higgie, Adjoa Osei, Veronica Ryan, and Lydia Yee talk to Shahidha Bari

• 44 mins

Beryl Vertue

Matthew Sweet meets the Sherlock producer and ex agent of Tony Hancock who has turned 90

• 45 mins

Green Thinking: Hot Money

Bitcoin, investment bonds and how to make finance greener.

• 26 mins

How anthropology helps us understand the world

Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

• 44 mins

How anthropology helps us understand the world

Economist Gillian Tett is one of Anne McElvoy's guests.

• 44 mins

Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas

The work of Turner Prize nominees, a Tiger Bay murder story, Under Milk Wood on stage

• 44 mins

Displacement

Edmund de Waal and Frances Stonor Saunders discuss uncovering Jewish family stories.

• 44 mins

Masks

The role of masks in African traditions, Greek tragedy and Covid conspiracies

• 45 mins

Building London

Eric Parry & Alison Brooks; writers Fiona Mozley & SI Martin; pianist Belle Chen

• 44 mins

Mid Century Modern

Shahidha Bari look at labour saving devices and ideas of home

• 44 mins