Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?
Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon
Milton and our modern world
It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce
Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes
Are we all American now?
3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter
Insiders & Outsiders
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond
Childhood and innocence
Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper
Reading & Empathy
With Shahidha Bari and guests
The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst
Crisis & Decision
Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment
Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart