Touki Bouki

A close look at Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film with Matthew Sweet and guests

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

Digging into the music of composers Joseph Bologne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry.

• 45 mins

Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research

• 44 mins

Asta Nielsen

Matthew Sweet on the life of Danish film star Asta Nielsen, one of cinema's first icons.

• 44 mins

How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece

Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin LeGendre & Owen Hatherley build up a Manifesto

• 44 mins

Paper

From the Chinese Han Dynasty in 105 AD to the 20th-century workplace, art and rubbish.

• 44 mins

Modernism Around The World

The Bauhaus in Deli, Japanese and South African novels, and poetry and art in Mexico

• 44 mins

Futurism

Matthew Sweet explores into the movement that celebrated technology, vitality, violence

• 44 mins

Diverse Classical Music II

Christienna Fryar speaks to four researchers whose work is expanding the musical canon

• 41 mins

Whale-watching

Philip Hoare, Rachel Murray, Peter Riley and Edward Sugden explore marine life.

• 44 mins

Whale watching

Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.

• 44 mins

Existential Risk

Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests

• 44 mins

Stonehenge history

Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths

• 44 mins

China, Freud, war and sci fi

From AI & fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.

• 44 mins

Hitchhiking

Matthew Sweet and guests consider hitchiking in culture and around the globe.

• 44 mins

Artists' models and fame

Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's woman in white, new radio ballads : Shahidha Bari hosts.

• 44 mins

Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history

Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about friends in an age of upheaval

• 44 mins

New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets

A computer game for cystic fibrosis patients to improve breathing

• 19 mins

Perfecting The Body

Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Harry Parker & Xine Yao discuss

• 44 mins

Climate change, nature and art

Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.

• 44 mins

The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.

• 44 mins

The Generation Gap

Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoyé talk family histories with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Sisters

The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Lucy Holland and Shahidha Bari

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Women’s history

The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

• 41 mins

New Thinking: Women’s history

The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

• 41 mins

Blackmail & Shame

Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film

• 44 mins

Fashion Stories: Body Armour

Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies

• 12 mins

Fashion Stories: In a handbag

Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us

• 14 mins

Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns

Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes

• 13 mins

Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history

Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing

• 13 mins