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The Glitch
Novelist Tom McCarthy joins Matthew Sweet to explore glitches and what they tell us.
Dante's Visions
Art historian Martin Kemp and painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website
Bette Davis
As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star
Connecting with Nature
Music from thunder, art inspired by a dog walk; essays about a city wood and a rural field
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Guests including author Tom McCarthy join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'.
Breathe
Writer James Nestor, musician Soweto Kinch, Forensic Architecture's Imani Jacqueline Brown
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between the arts and coal mining communities.
Epic Iran, Lost Cities and Proust
Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran, and why people abandon cities.
The English country house party
Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?
Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Matthew Sweet and guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film
