Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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The Essay - The British Writer and the Refugee
Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WW2.
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The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra
Louisa Egbunike explores images of refugees and Igbo rituals which continue to resonate.
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The Essay - Faith, Fire and the Family
Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
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The Essay - Creating Modern India
Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
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The Digital Humanities
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
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The Actors' Guide to the Emotions
From David Garrick to Sting's musical The Last Ship - how do actors convey emotion.
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Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised 19th c Redcoat
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Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War Two refugees.
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Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with BBC Radio 4's conversation programme & an audience at Sage Gateshead
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Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes
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Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie
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Should biographers imitate their subjects?
The perils of writing biographies of scientist JS Haldane & Indian mystic Mother Meera
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Shopping Around the Baby Market
Gulzaar Barn asks questions about commercial surrogacy and the way we view our bodies.
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Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture
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Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England
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Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson
Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes of...
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Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.
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Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy
This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save...
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Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire
Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current...
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Revolutionary free speech
Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.
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Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure
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Rattigan, Arab world, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Malloch-Brown
Trevor Nunn on reviving Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. What does it mean to be an...
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Radio 3 Proms Poetry Competition 2017
2017 Proms Poetry Competition: Ian McMillan is joined by Jason Polley & Judith Palmer...
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R3Arts: Play Schubert for Me - Episode 5
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...
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Proms Poetry Competition - 08 September 15
The winning entries in this year's Proms Poetry Competition
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Proms Poetry Competition
Judges Ian McMillan, Jackie Kay & Judith Palmer are joined on stage by the winning poets.
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Proms Poetry Competition
The poet Daljit Nagra and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries...
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Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters in discussion with Dr Fern Riddell
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Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden’s The Age of Anxiety
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Proms Plus: Tragedy
Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace
