Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Luck, predictability and superstition
Dr Christian Busch, Bobby Seagull, Sharron Davies, Dr Kate Tomas and Timandra Harkness.
How we think about evil
Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil
Gifts and Gratitude
Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving
Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
Sir Nigel Sheinwald,Clare Jackson, Holly Furneaux and Bronwen Maddox discuss diplomacy
Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?
Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon
Milton and our modern world
It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce
Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes
Are we all American now?
3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter
Insiders & Outsiders
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond
Childhood and innocence
Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper
