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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Picnics

    From Picnic at Hanging Rock to an Iron Curtain Pan European picnic

  2. Picasso, Baka Doc, Speed-Dating, Josie Rourke

    With Matthew Sweet. Artist Brad Lochore reviews a new exhibition at Tate Britain: and...

  3. Philosophy and Film

    Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss whether you can philosophise with film

  4. Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.

    Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighborhood.

  5. Phillis Wheatley

    The enslaved African American woman, Phillis Wheatley who became a celebrated poet.

  6. Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur

    Knossos - birthplace of myths and tragedies - explored by Rana Mitter and Natalie Haynes

  7. Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech

    Director Peter Weir talks about his new film, The Way Back. Chess grandmaster, Garry...

  8. Perfecting The Body

    Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Harry Parker & Xine Yao discuss

  9. Peace

    In the week of VE Day, Matthew Sweet discusses what peace has meant since 1945

  10. Pause for Thought

    From the bracket & exclamation mark to emojis - Florence Hazrat's history of punctuation

  11. Patti LuPone

    The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian-American roots.

  12. Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman

    Two American authors talk to Laurence Scott about their sense of time, place and self

  13. Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women

    Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri

  14. Paper

    From the Chinese Han Dynasty in 105 AD to the 20th-century workplace, art and rubbish.

  15. Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?

    Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on panpsychism, a radical movement in philosophy

  16. Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history

    Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about friends in an age of upheaval

  17. Pan-Africanism

    Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.

  18. Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies

    Samira Shackle , Ejaz Haider and Majed Akhter talk about Karachi, power, crime and energy

  19. Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

    Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

  20. Oxford Philosophy

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

  21. Out of Control?

    Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.

  22. Our Relationship with Animals: Will Abberley, Chris Packham, Helen Pilcher, Alan Hook

    Shahidha Bari looks at computing for cats, de-extinction and an animal symphony.

  23. Oscars 2019

    Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists

  24. Oscar Contenders, Movie Moguls and Silent Film Stars

    Lucy Porter & Steve Massa on women of the silent era, Vanda Krefft on William Fox's life

  25. Orwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.

    Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision & how our own is shaping up.

  26. Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

    The Nobel Prize winning novelist is joined by academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria

  27. Order & Chaos

    Clutter, indexes, and jazz improvisation. Ruth Ozeki and others join Shahidha Bari

  28. Oral tradition and oracy

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss look at fluently in politics, the classroom & society

  29. Opium Tales

    Ways of seeing the trade triangle from Confessions of an Opium Eater to modern novels.

  30. On The Silver Globe

    Take a mind-bending trip to a distant planet with Andrzej Zulawski's cult 1987 SF film

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