Creativity, performance, debate
Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about his writing process and 'cancel culture'.
Afua Hirsch goes in search of a long-lost masterpiece from the Harlem Renaissance.
Pat Barker and Giles Fraser talk to Ian McMillan about books by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
Edith Hall and Sir Barry Cunliffe consider the role of the sea in Greek myth and legend.
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike and Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's life and work.
How philosophy helps us understand the world reshaped by Covid-19. Shahidha Bari presents.
Chris Harding dips into some of the darker sides of Japan's epic 20th century.
From literature to politics, we hear how Schubert has been claimed by different movements.
Ian McMillan and guests on the language and myths of domestic violence.
Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway.
Reports from The Runnymede Trust and The Black Curriculum call for wider history teaching.
How do you decipher history when there isn't anything written down?
From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces.
Liam Neeson plays a concert pianist whose dementia falls away when he performs Ravel
Drama from Edinburgh's Summerhall. Three Letters - written and performed by Nell Leyshon.
A recreation of the final descent of the great Russian freediver, Natalia Molchanova.
Reflections on American writer Toni Morrison in her own words and those of her peers.
With Carolyn Forch茅, Kaveh Akbar, Juana Adcock and Sandeep Parmar.
Anne McElvoy looks at gambling and at lessons from past US presidents.
Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon.
A pair of authors due to be at the Bradford Literature Festival compare notes on writing.
The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings.
Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett swims the River Avon in search of inspiration.
Seal attacks, snapping penguins, angry bulls... a vet's life on Tristan Da Cunha.
