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Arts & Ideas Episodes

  1. Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade

    Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the of and...

  2. Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski

    Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet

  3. Bette Davis

    As the BFI prepares a season of films, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star

  4. Betrayal

    Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal

  5. Bestiaries and Beyond

    Shahidha Bari investigates the human invention of animals

  6. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

    Anne McElvoy looks at the career of Botswana's most influential writer.

  7. Beryl Vertue

    Matthew Sweet meets the Sherlock producer and ex agent of Tony Hancock who has turned 90

  8. Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

    Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

  9. Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

    Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha

  10. Bernard-Henri LΓ©vy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

    Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university

  11. Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

    Tom Smith's essay on early pioneers of Berlin's music scene and arguments about whiteness

  12. Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

    Tom Smith looks at the early pioneers of this music scene & arguments about whiteness now

  13. Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills

    Sarah Jilani on Latife Tekin’s magical realist novel about 1960’s Istanbul shanty towns.

  14. Benjamin Britten and Radio

    David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.

  15. Belonging

    A teacher's view, a Frankenstein-inspired ballet, outside status and circus paintings

  16. Belonging

    Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards

  17. Belief, Habit & Religion

    Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history

  18. Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

    Matthew Sweet in Canterbury and Portsmouth uncovering stories of the lost and the found.

  19. Being Human: Love Stories

    What does who we date and how we date say about us?

  20. Being Diplomatic

    How much emotion should a diplomat, a news reporter or a conciliation expert show?

  21. Being Blonde

    Matthew Sweet discusses the genealogy of blondeness

  22. Beer, Crisps and the British pub

    Tim Martin, Natalie Whittle, Prof Philip Howell, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Ben Wright.

  23. Bedrooms

    How have our bedrooms changed from sleeping space to work space?

  24. Beastly Politics

    Is man the only political beast?

  25. Back to the '80s

    Alexei Sayle and Adam Mars Jones join Matthew Sweet to revisit '80s film, tv and music

  26. Autism, film and patterns

    From Rain Man to Atypical - Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life

  27. Authority in the Era of Populism

    Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts & Rupert Reid w/ Anne McElvoy

  28. Australian novelist Peter Carey.

    A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales

  29. Audrey Hepburn

    Matthew Sweet marks the 30th anniversary of the death of this icon of film and fashion.

  30. Asta Nielsen

    Matthew Sweet on the life of Danish film star Asta Nielsen, one of cinema's first icons.

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