BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

The Weird. Science and Art at FACT. Japanese film Your Name.

Rana Mitter on science and art on show at Liverpool's FACT and what we mean by the weird.

Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from Günter Grass

Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd

Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum on fatherhood, with Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Vernon Lee, Harvey Matusow and wartime Senate House

Naomi Alderman reports on a version of Maus which puts music alongside the images.

From mermaids to robots via monkeys and men and zoos for humans and animals.

Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain

Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch and some Victorian jokes