From moral questions to the quirks & pleasures of life: Discrimination; Death Rituals; What Nietszche teaches us; Witches & Woodlands; Spookiness; The Joy of Sewing; Kids Fiction
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
Matthew Sweet and guests record with an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature film and myth
Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics
Dame Sheila Hancock, viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer on endings.
Reimagining the city through Chris Bush's drama trilogy about its oldest scissor factory.
Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.
Shahidha Bari traces the move from markings on convicts and aristos to today's body art.
Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Xine Yao and Harry Parker discuss.
Matthew Sweet considers examples from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Polish tokens.
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.
Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about community, collective action and May revels.
Gender, class and domestic tasks. Matthew pulls on his rubber gloves and gets stuck in.
Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA.
Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoy茅 talk family histories with Matthew Sweet
A poet, crime writer, theologian and marine biologist explore darkness.
Finding meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.
The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Lucy Holland, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Shahidha Bari.
Mark Ravenhill on staging the play on which Hitchcock based Blackmail.
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests.
From AI and fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research.
