BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Why go into space?

Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration

Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Ahead of a BFI festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Powell and Pressburger's film

Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy on a '70s US writing group. Lauren Elkin on art monsters

Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize

Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing

Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey

Matthew Sweet and guests with an audience at the 2022 Contains Strong Language Festival

Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience

Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.