BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Soil, Chickens and City Farms

Ahead of world soil day, Anne McElvoy looks at changes to both rural and urban farming.

Matthew Sweet with George Takei, Naomi Alderman, Una McCormack and José-Antonio Orosco

Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz & Lucy Bolton join Matthew Sweet to look at this 1966 film.

From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real

Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv and history

Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv depicting history

Rana Mitter discusses three major theorists of religion and self-development

Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.

Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton

Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker