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.
Art historian Martin Kemp and painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website
As The Servant is released on DVD, Matthew Sweet and guests explore Dirk Bogarde's career.
Matthew Sweet hosts a discussion about Chaplin recorded at the Bristol Slapstick Festival.
Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo, Stan and Ollie.
As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star
Rana Mitter presents a special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley.
Matthew Sweet and guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film
A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma.
Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation
From nΓ©gritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.
Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson on the influential US writer and civil rights activist.
Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.
Rana Mitter looks at the way politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem
Can you solve all the problems of philosophy in one book? Shahidha Bari and guests debate.
Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator
Shahidha Bari reads a new English translation by Robert Hurley.
Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought
Rana Mitter and guests re-read James Baldwin as a new US president is inaugurated.
Matthew Sweet and guests assess Darwin's arguments about the human species, sex and race.
Anne McElvoy and guests re-read this 1971 work of political philosophy about inequality.
Rana Mitter reads from a new biography of Dostoevsky, 200 years after his birth.
Laurence Scott and Alice Kelly re-read Wharton's 'gilded-age' novel The Age of Innocence.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James M Cain's classic novel and its film adaptation.
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today.
