Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Anarchism and David Graeber
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of American anthropologist (1961-2020).
Dom Sylvester Houédard
Matthew Sweet and guests on the career of the C20th concrete poet and Catholic mystic
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Anne McElvoy looks at Russian punk protest + a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie
Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
New research into the history of stainless steel cutlery, tinned food and sewing machines
Ghosts of Caribbean History
New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Mary Evans and Michael Elliott
Climate change and empire building
The long history of climate change and empire: historians Nandini Das and Peter Frankopan
Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
Knossos - birthplace of myths and tragedies - explored by Rana Mitter and Natalie Haynes
Idrissa Ouédraogo
The work of the Burkinabé filmmaker explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
Stories of Love
Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming of age tale Rubyfruit Jungle
Donkeys
From Aesop and the bible to the film EO which looks at a donkey born in a Polish circus.
