Key films, books, TV, plays, art: 1001 Nights – 2001 A Space Odyssey, Jane Austen - Jaws All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
Matthew Sweet with Daniel Postgate, Sandra Kerr, Neil Brand and Samira Ahmed.
An examination of the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV broadcast from 1992.
An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.
Matthew Sweet's guests include the voice of the Daleks and the Doctor's granddaughter.
Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician.
Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Linda Grant and Boris Dralyuk discuss the writer Isaac Babel with Matthew Sweet.
Anne McElvoy discusses the visionary poet with a composer and two literature experts.
Confronting the man who jilted you is the plot of this 1960s Argentine expressionist film
Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 martial arts film made before Bruce Lee's death aged 32.
The mermaid-like figure from medieval folklore is discussed by Shahidha Bari and guests.
A close look at Djibril Diop MambΓ©ty's classic 1973 film with Matthew Sweet and guests.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss what inspired Marvin Gaye's 1971 album What's Going On?
From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes.
The French film star who burst onto the scene in 1960 in Godard's Breathless.
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the Danish star of androgynous early romcoms and Hamlet.
One of the key French existentialists in the 50s, how does Simone de Beauvoir read today?
Why do Hannah Arendt's ideas continue to fire the imaginations of artists and thinkers?
Matthew Sweet and guests look at 1921's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and witches now.
Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel from 1951.
Shahidha Bari and guests read Logue's version of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔr's Iliad and look at its language.
Novelist Colm Toibin joins Anne McElvoy to discuss the German author's life and struggles.
