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

Landladies

Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

• 43 mins

The Black Country past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests with an audience at the 2022 Contains Strong Language Festival

• 44 mins

Writing and Place: Cornwall

Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey

• 20 mins

Writing and Place: The Cairngorms

Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing

• 23 mins

Wolfson Prize 2023

Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize

• 44 mins

Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco

Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy on a '70s US writing group. Lauren Elkin on art monsters

• 44 mins

The Red Shoes

Ahead of a BFI festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Powell and Pressburger's film

• 45 mins

Black Atlantic

Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

• 45 mins

Why go into space?

Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration

• 45 mins

Notebooks and new technology

Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington

• 45 mins

Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski

Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet

• 45 mins

Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival

Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers

• 45 mins

Hobbes and New Leviathans

John Gray on why re-reading Hobbes can help us understand contemporary politics

• 45 mins

Slavic culture and myth

Matthew Sweet looks at the origins of creatures like Baba Yaga, Banniks and Rusalkas.

• 44 mins

Refuge and National Poetry Day

Poets Momtaza Mehri, Julianknxx and historian Jesús Sanjurjo join Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life

Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness

Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity

• 29 mins