Speaking Welsh

Catherine Fletcher with Richard King, Caryl Lewis, Elen Ifan and Seiriol Davies

• 45 mins

Soil

John Gallagher and guests dig deep into the significance of soil

• 45 mins

Gandhi, Indian Architecture

Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi

• 45 mins

Goddesses

Christopher Harding explores the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others

• 43 mins

Tattoos

Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.

• 44 mins

The Tudor Mind

Donne, Hamlet, 16th century psychology and mathematics, Tudor portraits

• 44 mins

Tudor families

Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown

Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about C16th English settlers in America

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art

Vid Simoniti considers eco-art, from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet

Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet

• 14 mins

Oceans and the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival

• 45 mins

Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy

The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.

• 45 mins

Get Carter

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

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities

Hidden LGBTQ+ histories in Northern Ireland and queer cinema in contemporary China

• 39 mins

The Wolfson Prize 2022

Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for this prize for history writing.

• 45 mins

Victorian streets

Is that strong inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one?

• 44 mins

John McGrath's Scottish Drama

Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

• 44 mins

South African writing

Damon Galgut discusses his Booker winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922

• 45 mins

Slow Film and Ecology

Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film made about rice over 18 years

• 45 mins

Sheffield reinvented

New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Waiting

What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?

• 36 mins

ETA Hoffmann

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the life of the German Romantic who died 25 June 1822.

• 45 mins

Late works

Geoff Dyer and Dame Sheila Hancock discuss endings and lateness with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Belief, Habit & Religion

Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history

• 44 mins

David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist

Two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world

• 45 mins

Vampires and the Penny Dreadful

Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

• 45 mins

New Thinking: India in the archives

Dr Naomi Paxton explores archives for stories of Indian culture and history.

• 30 mins

Writing about money

Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics

• 45 mins

The Black Fantastic

How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.

• 45 mins