Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs
Poetic and archaeological trip round our fascination with what comes up when we dig down.
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What kind of history should we write?
Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter
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What is Speech?
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox
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What is normal?
Sarah Chaney, Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman on neurodiversity, with Matthew Sweet
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What is good listening?
Matthew Sweet with NYT journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf, David Toop.
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What does game playing teach us?
Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.
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What does feminist art mean?
Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement
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What does a black history curriculum look like?
Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach?
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What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.
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What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?
Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.
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What Camus and Claude L茅vi-Strauss teach us
Being an outsider and learning to think like an outsider
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Whale-watching
Philip Hoare, Rachel Murray, Peter Riley and Edward Sugden explore marine life.
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Whale watching
Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.
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Were the Luddites Right?
Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their...
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Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip
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Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Cabaret and club culture, recorded at the Barbican.
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Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons
With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...
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War in fact and fiction
Historians and authors discuss their own work and reflections on conflict and violence.
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Walls
Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall
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Vikings
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to scholars with new insights on the Viking period
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Victorian streets
Is that strong inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one?
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Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
Nandini Das visits Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean in Oxford and talks to a jeweller
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Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire
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Valis and Philip K Dick
A weirdly autobiographical science fiction novel from 1981 inspired by hallucinations.
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Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens
In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...
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Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and others discuss the politics of this 1973 fable
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Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
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Twilight
Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish
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Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60 died in an execution
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Tudor Virtual Reality
The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgment of Solomon
