From moral questions to the quirks & pleasures of life: Discrimination; Death Rituals; What Nietszche teaches us; Witches & Woodlands; Spookiness; The Joy of Sewing; Kids Fiction
Who's pulling your strings? Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders.
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
From death cafes to bronze age burials, from C19 mourning rings to the way doctors cope.
Peter Hitchens; Rev Lucy Winkett; Neil Bartlett: Prof Steve Brown @ Imperial War Museum.
A look at free-thinker Thomas Woolston, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, memory and neuroscience
Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.
Marie Darrieussecq, Lisa Mullen and Dafydd Daniel on magic and dystopias.
The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.
Economist Paul Collier, Scottish historian Tom Devine and Colombian novelist Hector Abad
Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head?
The author of The Essex Serpent talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth
Lisa Appignanesi on public and private loss and how to face its concomitant, anger.
Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today
Rana Mitter talks to Ben Okri about Camus and debates the 'untamed mind' of Levi-Strauss.
Anne McEvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace.
Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, Natalie Haynes, Michele Roberts
Matthew Sweet visits the Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.
Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.
How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.
Anne McElvoy leads a discussion on the history and ethics of pet ownership.
Sara Maitland, Lionel Shriver and John-Henry Clay explore solitude
