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.
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich, from Europe to Hollywood.
Anne McElvoy listens out for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel
Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about novelist EM Forster's work.
Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.
Matthew Sweet and guests imagine an evening in the film star's company.
Mathew Sweet, Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead -150 years since Dickens' death
Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway.
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike and Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's life and work.
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.
Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.
Rebecca Mead, Fiona Shaw, Philip Davis, Dafydd Daniel & Peggy Reynolds with Shahidha Bari.
Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas.
Matthew Sweet and guests on Iris Murdoch's thought and writing (15 Jul 1919–8 Feb 1999).
Matthew Sweet discusses James Joyce's groundbreaking novel of 1939.
Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision and how our own is shaping up.
Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement.
An ecological fable about a perfect society? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.
Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey, Tibor Fischer & Damian Catani on CΓ©line's masterpiece.
David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo, Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.
Shahidha Bari leads a discussion of Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017).
A Landmark edition in which Philip Dodd and guests examine The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Philip Dodd chairs a debate about arts broadcasting past and present.
