BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Late works

Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings

A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician

Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

Matthew Sweet & Daniel Postgate, musicians Sandra Kerr & Neil Brand, critic Samira Ahmed

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes

Matthew Sweet & guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film

Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing

Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan