Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
What does feminist art mean?
Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement
New Thinking: Light and Darkness
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
New Thinking: East West artistic connections
A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art
Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.
Writing Place
Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.
Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future
New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment
From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water
