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
Selina Todd, David Goodhart, Timandra Harkness and Sadie Ryan talk with Matthew Sweet.
In February 1971, the UK went decimal. Anne McElvoy and guests look at money old and new.
From Rain Man to Atypical. Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life.
Rana Mitter and guests re-read James Baldwin as a new US president is inaugurated.
Anne McElvoy and guests re-read this 1971 work of political philosophy about inequality.
What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?
Bush fires in novelist Richard Flanagan's new book, and Anne McElvoy looks at veganism.
Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong and the USA. Are confrontational politics here to stay?
From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples and the resilience of island life
From the most private space to office: Matthew Sweet, Tiffany Watt Smith and Fern Riddell.
Des Fitzgerald with projects that use films and books to rethink how we approach health.
Anne McElvoy talks to Edmund Fawcett about conflicts within Conservatism.
Matthew Sweet asks biographer Peter Salmon about Derrida's influence today
Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.
From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts
Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare & Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet
Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen, Riel Miller, Sarah Dillon & Rupert Read with Matthew Sweet
A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd
What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?
Rutger Bregman tells Anne McElvoy why survival of the fittest needs rethinking as an idea.
Naomi Paxton looks at new research into the effectiveness of the UK act passed in 2015.
Bertie Carvel & Roy Alexander Weise are amongst Anne McElvoy's guests
From building shelters to the language we use to discuss displacement we hear new research
Anne McElvoy looks at gambling and at lessons from past US presidents.
