Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
New Thinking: East West artistic connections
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art
Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.
Writing Place
Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.
Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future
New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water
The Legacy of the Laundries
Louise Brangan reflects on the uncovering of the secret lives lived in Irish laundries
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies
Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip
