Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Wole Soyinka's writing
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike & Oladipo Agboluaje discuss the Nigerian author's life and work
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
Can one book solve all the problems of philosophy?
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Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
Conjuring fear, discussed by historians and by novelists Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden
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Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
Matthew Sweet and guests look at The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921) and witches now
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Winter Light
From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars & Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.
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Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife
Winning and losing with Lea Ypi, Peter Hitchens, Michael Mansfield KC and Cath Bishop.
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Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
Colin Grant Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari
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Windows
From Rear Window to stained glass, TB to paintings at Dulwich: Shahidha Bari hosts.
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William Stukeley
Rana Mitter considers the life and legacy of the first person to survey Stonehenge
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William Kentridge and William Boyd
South African artist William Kentridge and novelist William Boyd talk to Philip Dodd
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Wilkie Collins & disability
How the Victorian author鈥檚 own pain and drug dependency fed into his sensational novels.
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Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.
Gillian Clarke. Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's 大象传媒 Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...
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Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
From Elizabethan Anne Dowriche, Victorian Anne Bronte to why women say they read now.
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Why We Need Weepies
From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?
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Why We Need New News
Research on reporting hangings, assassinations & propaganda from the Being Human Festival
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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment
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Why go into space?
Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration
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Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?
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Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.
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Who needs critics?
Matthew Sweet questions the critic's role while Vid Simoniti looks at algorithms and art.
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Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket
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When TV & the information superhighway were new
Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno
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When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
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Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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What's so great about EM Forster
Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the English novelist's work.
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What to Believe
Rana Mitter and guests have a look at the history of faith, doubt, economics and art.
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What St Augustine teaches us
Anne McElvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace
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What Nietzsche teaches us
Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today
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What Makes a Good Lecture?
From Aristotle to TED talks: Mary Beard, Homi Bhabha and Se谩n Williams with Shahidha Bari
