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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

    Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong & USA. Is confrontational politics is here to stay?

  2. Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia

    Matthew Sweet re-reads a classic of French postmodern theory

  3. Deep Time and the Earth

    Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.

  4. Decadent Art

    New research into ideas about decadence and connections with France, England and Iran.

  5. Debt

    As Budget day approaches, Anne McElvoy looks at debt from the South Sea Bubble to Sunak

  6. Death rituals

    From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way doctors cope.

  7. Death Comes to Us All

    Richard Holloway, Kathryn Mannix and Kevin Toolis debate the end of life with Philip Dodd

  8. Davos Discussions. Shobana Jeyasingh. New Generation Thinker SeΓ΅n Williams

    Anne McElvoy explores topics discussed at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum

  9. David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist

    Two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world

  10. David Bailey, Don McCullin

    Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

  11. David Bailey, Don McCullin

    Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.

  12. David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art

    David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet.

  13. Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)

    Matthew Sweet and guests assess Darwin's arguments about the human species, sex, and race

  14. Dark Places

    A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness

  15. Dante's visions

    Art historian Martin Kemp, painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website

  16. Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self

    Directors Danny Boyle and Nev Schulman on their latest films; psychotherapist Susie on...

  17. Dam Fever and the Diaspora

    How do large dam projects gain widespread support despite past examples asks Majed Akhter

  18. Dam Fever and The Diaspora

    How do large dam projects attract such adoration, despite lessons of twentieth century?

  19. Dadaism's 100th anniversary.

    Matthew Sweet looks at the founding of the Dada movement 100 years ago.

  20. Dadaism's 100th anniversary.

    Matthew Sweet looks at the founding of the Dada movement 100 years ago.

  21. Dada and the power of Nonsense

    A project to re-imagine the Dada arts movement now, and reflections on satire and nonsense

  22. Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of Novelists

    Philip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world...

  23. Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

    Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy

  24. Crossroads and TV soaps

    Russell T Davies and Paula Milne on the power of soap operas

  25. Crisis & Decision

    Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment

  26. Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson

    A crime writer, novelist from Northern Ireland and former prison governor compare notes.

  27. Cows in culture and soil

    Are cows the answer to depleted soil or the problem? With farmer and author James Rebanks

  28. Counterculture and Protest

    Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo & Paul Cronin on uprisings.

  29. Could there be a private language?

    Shahidha Bari investigates Wittgenstein's response to scepticism

  30. Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

    Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon

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