Dorothy Bohm, Edward Burtynsky, Sean Scully, Dada, Elizabeth Price, Edmund de Waal All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.
Artist Lubna Chowdhary, author Michèle Roberts, art historians James Fox and Kelly Grovier
Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.
Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander.
How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.
Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi.
From Rear Window to stained glass, TB to paintings at Dulwich. Shahidha Bari hosts.
Donne, Hamlet, mathematics and the Tudor portraits composed by Vaughan Williams.
Christopher Harding investigates the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others.
John Gallagher and guests dig deep into the significance of soil.
Japanese cultural experimentation: painter KyΕsai 1831-1889 and writer Mishima 1925-1970.
Lisa Mullen & guests mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of London's Barbican centre
Ingrid Pollard, Julian Perry, Patricia Dominguez, Will Abberley and Eleanor Barraclough.
Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's Woman in White, new radio ballads. Shahidha Bari hosts.
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the manifesto celebrating youth, technology and violence.
Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin Le Gendre and Owen Hatherley build up a manifesto.
Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.
An exploration of the cultural and social history of paper.
As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post-war writing and art
Writer Philip Hoare, curator Robert Wenley, historian Helen Cowie talk celebrity animals.
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard, artist Ali Cherri and looks at Hogarth's art.
Tania Kovats describes her sculptures from bleached coral and concrete moulded wetsuits.
Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish.
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
