BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

African identity via China and photography

Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.

For Halloween, Matthew Sweet & guests discuss supernatural fiction, bad teeth & canals

Matthew Sweet hears about research into the singer & friend of JS Mill feat. live songs!

John Gallagher gets sleeping tips from research pioneers and early modern history

Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani, sculptor Zak Ové with Shahihda Bari

A weirdly autobiographical science fiction novel from 1981 inspired by hallucinations.

From mitochondrial medicine to 17th century cancer treatments, via Bach's Cantatas

Nandini Das visits Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean in Oxford and talks to a jeweller

From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911

Matthew Sweet discusses the genealogy of blondeness