Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Rivers, different cultures, different values
Anthropologist, Poet, Archaeologist and Angler reflect on what a river should be
Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.
Rivers and geopolitics
Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity
Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias
Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.
Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy
Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.
Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
A philosopher of love and a philosopher in love
Landmark: Audre Lorde
Jackie Kay & Selina Thompson discuss the influential US writer & civil rights activist
Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
From German techno music to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, divisive dams and democracy's bug
