Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
With the death of Glenda Jackson announced here's a conversation she recorded last year
Portraits
As the NPG re-opens we look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary & oral history
Ideas about health
Gavin Francis on Thomas Browne, Polly Morland on John Berger, Matt Smith on mental health
Adam Smith
From the East India Company to Silicon Valley: the big ideas in his tercentennial year
Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu
Michel Piccoli
Matthew Sweet on the French actor who worked with Buñuel, Varda, Ferreri and Godard.
Nature Memoirs
Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley
Europe
Ece Temelkuran, Ben Judah, Misha Glenny and Timothy Garton Ash with Rana Mitter at Hay
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
As an Imperial War Museum show opens, Anne McElvoy and guests discuss art and the Troubles
Sneezing, smells and noses
From Montaigne on sneezing to losing the sense of smell & historians using their noses.