Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
Sir Nigel Sheinwald,Clare Jackson, Holly Furneaux and Bronwen Maddox discuss diplomacy
Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?
Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon
Milton and our modern world
It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce
Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes
Are we all American now?
3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter
Insiders & Outsiders
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond
Childhood and innocence
Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper
Reading & Empathy
With Shahidha Bari and guests
The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst
Crisis & Decision
Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment