Arts & IdeasEpisodes Episode guide
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Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor of the civil war.
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Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor
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Writing and Place: Wales
Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing
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Writing and Place: The North-East
Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan
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Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing
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Writing and Place: Northern Ireland
Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari
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Writing and Place: Cornwall
Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey
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Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human
Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris.
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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment
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Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.
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Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket
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When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
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What does feminist art mean?
Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement
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Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip
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Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons
With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...
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Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens
In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...
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Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
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Tudor Virtual Reality
The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgment of Solomon
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Tudor Virtual Reality
What is the link between VR dinosaurs & a Tudor wall painting of the Judgement of Solomon?
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Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George
Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of...
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The well-groomed Georgian
Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth
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The Way I See It: Steven Pinker and Picasso
Harvard professor Steven Pinker picks a work of art that inspires him from MOMA, New York
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The Trial of Ubu, David Scheffer & The Hajj
Matthew Sweet talks to David Scheffer, architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunal and...
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The Legacy of the Laundries
Louise Brangan reflects on the uncovering of the secret lives lived in Irish laundries
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The Heir of Redclyffe
Clare Walker-Gore revisits Charlotte M. Yonge's best-selling novel from 1853.
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The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys
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The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.
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The Forgotten German Princess
The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.
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The Essay: The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot's Essay from the Free Thinking Festival
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The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Daisy Black conjures up images of breaking bread and cannibalism in mystery plays
