Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon
Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 film that made Bruce Lee an international star
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British New Wave Films of the '60s
Matthew Sweet on the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey and The Knack.
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British Conceptual Art.
Philip Dodd talks to artist Bruce McLean about British Conceptual Art on show at Tate.
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British Academy Book Prize 2022
Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
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Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Hannah Greig
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Breathe
Soweto Kinch, James Nestor, and Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture
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Breaking Down the Barriers
The cultural contribution of Muslim women and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane
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Breakfast
Literally "breaking the fast" - Matthew Sweet moves from the Full English to Tiffany's.
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Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing + Stevie's Smith's writing
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Boyhood to manhood
Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now
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Boredom
Time and the value of doing nothing
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Borders: On the ground, on the map, in the mind
From Ireland to Turkey, from soldiering to walking to photographing - with Anne McElvoy.
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi
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Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
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Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
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Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.
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Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
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Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922
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Blackmail & Shame
Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film
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Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley
We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 in...
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Black British History
Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on Black Britain
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Black Atlantic
Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller
We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German and...
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Billy Wilder
Novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot
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Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade
Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the of and...
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Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski
Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet
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Bette Davis
As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star
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Betrayal
Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal
