The Sorrows of Young Werther

The book of the Sturm und Drang generation: Anne McElvoy explores the ideas behind it

• 44 mins

Diva

As the V&A opens an exhibition about performers, Naomi Paxton discusses what makes a diva

• 44 mins

Gut instinct

From gut feelings in your stomach to the language of disgust: Matthew Sweet hosts

• 45 mins

Boyhood to manhood

Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now

• 44 mins

Julian the Apostate

We examine Rome's last pagan ruler via Ibsen's drama to apostasy in contemporary politics

• 45 mins

Dystopian thinking

As Kay Dick's They opens at MIF, Matthew Sweet and guests trace the history of dystopias.

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Writing the NHS

Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing

• 37 mins

New Thinking: Design and health

From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition

• 32 mins

New Thinking: health inequalities

Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues

• 29 mins

New Thinking: Children and health

What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?

• 34 mins

New Thinking: oral histories and the NHS

New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing

• 29 mins

A lively Tudor world

From needlework to marriage portraits to depicting music on the page

• 44 mins

Liverpool Biennial + art at MIF

Catherine Fletcher and 3 Biennial artists. Vid Simoniti visits Economics the Blockbuster

• 44 mins

South Asia: poverty and princes

Historians Joya Chatterji and Tripurdaman Singh, plus the novels of Kamala Markandaya

• 45 mins

New Thinking: women and football

Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football

• 34 mins

Childhood and play

The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak

• 44 mins

Oxford Philosophy

The influence of J.L. Austin, Gilbert Ryle, Elizabeth Anscombe and later Derek Parfit

• 69 mins

Rock Follies

The groundbreaking 1970s TV drama reassessed with guests including actor Rula Lenska.

• 44 mins

Writing and Place: Northern Ireland

Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari

• 23 mins

Writing and Place: The North-East

Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan

• 20 mins

Writing and Place: Wales

Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing

• 21 mins

Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday

Matthew Sweet & guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film

• 44 mins

The Wife of Bath

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

• 43 mins

The Wife of Bath

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

• 43 mins

Oliver Postgate

Matthew Sweet & Daniel Postgate, musicians Sandra Kerr & Neil Brand, critic Samira Ahmed

• 44 mins

My Neighbour Totoro

Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

• 43 mins

ETA Hoffmann

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician

• 43 mins

Dark Places

A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness

• 44 mins

Late works

Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings

• 44 mins

Depicting AIDS in Drama

Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

• 44 mins