Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
A pinch of salt
A key preservative, the subject of taxes, a danger to plant-life - how much salt is good?
Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking
Timandra Harkness, Ekow Eshun, Sophie Grace Chappell, Richard Bett and Stephen Bush
All we need is love
Susie Orbach, Armand D'Angour, Vittoria Fallanca, Mary Harrod and Catherine Wheatley.
Repetition
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss routine, repetition and our sense of time
Decision Making
From think tanks & tallies to tarot, what tools do we use to help us choose our actions?
Diaries
Michael Crick, Irving Finkel, Sophie Coulombeau and Oliver Burkeman join Matthew Sweet
Knowing When To Stop
From art to activism, campaigning to cabaret, Shahidha Bari asks when is enough enough?
Beer, Crisps and the British pub
Tim Martin, Natalie Whittle, Prof Philip Howell, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Ben Wright.
Luck, predictability and superstition
Dr Christian Busch, Bobby Seagull, Sharron Davies, Dr Kate Tomas and Timandra Harkness.
How we think about evil
Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil
