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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance

    Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture

  2. Satyajit Ray's films

    Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta, Chandak Sengoopta discuss Ray with Rana Mitter

  3. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

    Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.

  4. Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

    Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England

  5. Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.

    The Essex Serpent's author talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth.

  6. Sarah Perry

    In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.

  7. Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress

    Ahead of International Women's Day Shahidha Bari hears stories linking women with war

  8. Sankofa and Afrofuturism

    Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani, sculptor Zak OvΓ© with Shahihda Bari

  9. Samuel Johnson's circle

    Patience Agbabi's novel time travels back to eighteenth century London - so do we

  10. Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture

    If we want the arts to be a comfort blanket, where does Beckett fit in?

  11. Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners

    Selvon's evocative 1956 novel discussed at the British Library by Shahidha Bari & guests.

  12. Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty

    Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.

  13. Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson

    Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes of...

  14. Saint John Henry Newman

    Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster, Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought

  15. Saint John Henry Newman

    Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel

  16. Saint John Henry Newman

    Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel

  17. Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

    Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik talk to Anne McElvoy.

  18. Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

    Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

  19. Russia and Fear.

    Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past & present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze.

  20. Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.

    Sheila Hancock, Neil Bartlett, Bim Adewunmi and head teacher Jonny Mitchell debate rules.

  21. Rude Valentines. Neil Gaiman, Translating China's Arts

    Neil Gaiman talks Norse myths with Rana Mitter. And a look at the ugly side of Valentines

  22. Royalty, art and patronage.

    Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty

  23. Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

    Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.

  24. Romanticism Revisited

    Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open

  25. Romanian history and literature

    Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy

  26. Rocky Horror and camp

    Shahidha Bari is joined by Louise Creechan, Joan Passey and Paul Baker

  27. Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners

    Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.

  28. Rock Follies

    The groundbreaking 1970s TV drama reassessed with guests including actor Rula Lenska.

  29. Robin Askwith

    The actor talks to Matthew Sweet about a childhood affected by polio and his career.

  30. Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy

    This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save...

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