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.
Philip Dodd and guests including Robert Irwin discuss The One Thousand and One Nights.
Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien.
Matthew Sweet with Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and John Cook.
A landmark edition celebrating Proust's great novel In Search of Lost Time.
A celebration of one of the great landmarks of culture, Solaris with Matthew Sweet.
Matthew Sweet discusses WWI, empire and adventure in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Matthew Sweet and guests including Ian Christie and SF Said on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Philip Dodd and guests discuss George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England.
William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Matthew Sweet discuss Musil's The Man Without Qualities
Matthew Sweet discusses Zamyatin's 1919 novel We, which depicts spying in a glass city.
Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life.
Samira Ahmed and guests discuss Joan Littlewood's musical Oh What a Lovely War.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Angus Wilson's 1961 novel The Old Men at the Zoo.
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the celebrated horror film The Innocents.
A landmark edition examining EP Thompson's book The Making of the English Working Class.
Anne McElvoy and guests examine Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes.
Anne McElvoy presents a Landmark edition examining Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Matthew Sweet with a Landmark edition examining Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
Matthew Sweet with a Landmark edition examining Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Blackmail.
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Philip Dodd and guests explore Muriel Spark's novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Anne McElvoy presents a Landmark edition examining Jean Renoir's film La Grande Illusion.
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition of the programme devoted to Charles Dickens.
