Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a old dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Essay - The Magic Years
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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The Essay - The British Writer and the Refugee
Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WW2.
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The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra
Louisa Egbunike explores images of refugees and Igbo rituals which continue to resonate.
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The Essay - Faith, Fire and the Family
Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
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The Essay - Creating Modern India
Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
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The English country house party
Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?
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The English Civil War
Rana Mitter talks about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.
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The Emotion of Now
Which is the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK?
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The Dutch Connection
John Gallagher hears about new research into Anglo-Dutch trade and early publishing
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The Digital Humanities
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
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The Declaration Of Arbroath
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today
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The Day of the Triffids
The end of the world as we know it. Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's novel
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The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.
Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.
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The Dance of Nature
Jim Al-Khalili, Melissa Bateson, Andrew McBain and Richard Bevan explore group behaviour
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The Daleks
Matthew Sweet's guests include the voice of the Daleks, and the Doctor's granddaughter
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The culture wars and politics now.
Philip Dodd with Douglas Murray, David Goodhart, Beatrix Campbell & Maya Goodfellow.
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The culture of Albania
Matthew Sweet is joined by Lea Ypi, Adela Demetja, Ani Kokobobo and Aurel Qirjo
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The Council Estate in Culture
Why are estates so often portrayed as incubators of social deprivation and criminality?
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The continuing appeal of Tudor history
Philippa Gregory tells Matthew Sweet why the Tudors are still so hot.
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The consolation of philosophy and stories
Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway
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The Condom and V.D.
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about sexual health, VD clinics, sex work and condoms
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The Changing Image of Masculinity.
Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola & Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life
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The British Academy Book Prize 2021
New ways of thinking about global problems - Rana Mitter reads this year's shortlist.
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The body, past and present
Beauty - Renaissance to the present. Chantal Joffe & Heather Widdows with Anne McElvoy
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The Black Fantastic
How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.
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The Black Country past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests with an audience at the 2022 Contains Strong Language Festival
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The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region
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The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region
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The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
Matthew Sweet with Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and John Cook
