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Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.

• 45 mins

Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.

• 45 mins

The importance of networks; the art of dance

Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

• 45 mins

Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair.

• 45 mins

Blade Runner. Ghost Stories.

Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 and visits haunted places in Portsmouth

• 45 mins

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

• 45 mins

Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty.

Shahidha Bari and guests debate the play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle and doubt.

• 45 mins

Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley.

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness.

• 45 mins

The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from The Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Marnie

Matthew Sweet explores memory and Marnie, of Graham's novel and Hitchcock's film fame.

• 45 mins

Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0

• 45 mins

Young Marx, Marxism.

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

• 45 mins

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner.

Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art.

Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room

• 45 mins

Britten and Radio.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.

• 45 mins

The pros and cons of Swearing

Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.

• 45 mins

Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.

• 44 mins

Soviet Histories. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Svetlana Alexievich on Soviet oral history as literature, and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

• 45 mins

Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Boris Akunin and Zinovy Zinik talk with Anne McElvoy, recorded at Pushkin House in London.

• 45 mins

Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest

Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.

• 59 mins

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

´óÏó´«Ã½ news head James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

• 45 mins

Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

Matthew Sweet goes to Canterbury, Portsmouth and TFL offices for stories of lost and found

• 45 mins

Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival.

• 45 mins

Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.

• 45 mins

Religious Belief

Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians and the modern rise of Pentecostalism.

• 45 mins

David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change ?

The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities in the UK.

• 45 mins

Gentrification

Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers.

• 45 mins

Documenting through photography and poetry

The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale and Kate Flint

• 45 mins

Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

• 45 mins