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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Alice and Dreaming

    Alice is asked in Wonderland, Why is a raven like a writing desk? Salman Rushdie explains

  2. Alexander the Great

    Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander

  3. Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Tom McCarthy and others join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'

  4. Ai Weiwei, the value of Arts & All About Love

    Isabel Hilton on the artist Ai Weiwei and his recent problems with the Chinese state.

  5. AI and creativity: what makes us human?

    A discussion hosted by Matthew Sweet at the Barbican's exhibition AI More Than Human

  6. Agoraphobia

    More than just a fear of going out - the history & lived experience of a phobia explored.

  7. After Dark Festival: Equinox

    Matthew Sweet looks for meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.

  8. After Dark Festival: Dark Places

    A poet, crime writer, theologian & marine biologist join Matthew Sweet to explore darkness

  9. Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.

    Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.

  10. African identity via China and photography

    Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.

  11. African Empire Stories

    Petina Gappah & Sarah LeFanu on Livingstone, Kipling and Mary Kingsley in Africa

  12. Africa Babel China

    Histories of West Africa, 20th c China, art of translation

  13. Advertising & Artemisia

    Considering how women have shaped art and advertising and new feminist writing in Korea.

  14. Adoption, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ren茅e Vivien & Violette Leduc

    Fiona Sampson, Peggy Reynolds and Anne McElvoy talk poetry and writing personal stories

  15. Aditya Chakrabortty

    Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society.

  16. Adapting Moli猫re

    Liz Lochead is one of Anne McElvoy's guests discussing how to update the French dramatist

  17. Adam Smith

    From the East India Company to Silicon Valley: the big ideas in his tercentennial year

  18. A Sentimental Journey

    Se谩n Williams rereads Laurence Sterne's subjective travel book & talks to Philip Hensher

  19. A lively Tudor world

    From needlework to marriage portraits to depicting music on the page

  20. A Literary Salon.

    Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper and Jake Arnott join Matthew Sweet.

  21. A Feminist Take on Medieval History

    How does Chaucer write about rape and consent ? Shahidha Bari with new academic research.

  22. A family of witches

    Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.

  23. A city is not a park but should it be?

    A short talk at the Free Thinking Festival from New Generation Thinker Des Fitzgerald.

  24. A Brazilian soprano in jazz-age Paris

    Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.

  25. 2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts

    Prehistory with Mike Pitts & Renee So, plus Alex Clark & Tinuke Craig

  26. 20 Words for Joy ... Feelings Around the World.

    Aatish Taseer, Veronica Strang and Thomas Dixon at the Free Thinking Festival.

  27. 1922:Food fads

    John Gallagher talks to Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson about iguana soup and protein bars

  28. 1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the All England Club's move to a new home

  29. 1922: Wimbledon

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the All England Club's move to a new home.

  30. 1922: The Lincoln Memorial

    Why was Lincoln the president the nation chose to commemorate in 1922?

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