Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes
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Simplify your life
Nudism, camping, and vegetarianism: the Life Reform movement explained.
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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?
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Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay.
Rana Mitter discusses writing on art from Da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois.
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Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.
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Sidney Poitier
Matthew Sweet and guests consider the career of the Bahamian-American actor (1927-2022)
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Should We Keep Pets?
John Bradshaw, Jessica Pierce, Philip Howell and Laura Purcell with Anne McElvoy.
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Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie
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Should Doctors Cry?
Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age?
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Should biographers imitate their subjects?
The perils of writing biographies of scientist JS Haldane & Indian mystic Mother Meera
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Shopping Around the Baby Market
Gulzaar Barn asks questions about commercial surrogacy and the way we view our bodies.
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Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos - Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade
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Ships and History
Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards, and Tom Nancollas
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Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, Senna
Sherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships.
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Sheffield reinvented
New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.
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Shakespeare's Women
The women who crop up in Shakespeare's life, his plays and who helped conserve his legacy
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Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?
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Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.
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Shakespeare as inspiration
From Bollywood films and Pre-Raphaelite art to productions of Shakespeare in places at war
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Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Anne McElvoy looks at Russian punk protest + a version of US TV's Big Bird, Bert and Ernie
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Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns w/ Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias
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Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series
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Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry & Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict
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Sebastian Faulks
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel Paris Echo.
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Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn ForchΓ©
The walking & photographs of WG Sebald. An exhibition of money and Jewish history.
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Seances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.
A haunting & artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale, Richard Wiseman & Matthew Sweet
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Sea Goings
Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark
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Scottish Kingship
Medieval myth-making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny
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Scientific Breakthroughs
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Schiller's Mary Stuart; GΓΌnter Grass. Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves.
Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from GΓΌnter Grass
