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

Green Thinking: Climate Change and Literature

What can creative writing add to the conversation about climate change?

• 26 mins

World's Fairs and the future

Visions of the future shaped by empire, politics and unfaltering faith in progress

• 45 mins

Green Thinking: Climate Change and Heritage

How do we stop climate change destroying historic landmarks or is it time to say goodbye?

• 26 mins

Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic

Laurence Scott investigates what's lurking in the rock pools

• 44 mins

Green Thinking: Sustainable Cities

Earthscrapers and subterranean transport - do greener cities need to go underground?

• 26 mins

New Thinking:The Innovative Shape of Poems

Sandeep Parmar talks to poets Kayo Chingonyi, Paisley Rekdal and Nasser Hussain

• 44 mins

Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

Glenda Jackson talks to Matthew Sweet about John Schlesinger's 1971 love triangle drama

• 44 mins

The English country house party

Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?

• 44 mins

Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust

Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran + why people abandon cities.

• 44 mins

Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between mining, the arts, and culture

• 44 mins

Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

Matthew Sweet excavates the culture and arts of mining

• 44 mins

Green Thinking: Festivals

Des Fitzgerald hears how festivals can reduce their ecological footprint

• 26 mins

Breathe

Soweto Kinch, James Nestor, and Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture

• 44 mins

Green Thinking: Weather

What can we learn from how people responded to extreme weather events in the past?

• 26 mins

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Tom McCarthy and others join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'

• 44 mins