Peter Singer, Cordelia Fine, Garry Kasparov, AI and Algorithmns, Tim O’Reilly. All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Including a new sex survey, a Nick Broomfield documentary and the history of the audiobook
Matthew Sweet discuses hands with psychoanalyst Darian Leader.
Frances Fyfield, Richard Bessel, Peter Stanford and Mayura Deshpande join Philip Dodd.
With Icelandic writer SjΓ³n, the career of Winifred Knights and an exploration of touch.
Alberto Manguel talks to Matthew Sweet about curiosity and a lifetime of reading.
Moral philosopher Peter Singer is in conversation with Philip Dodd.
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.
Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to debate inheritance.
Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton.
Rana Mitter discusses The Tale of Genji, sometimes called the world's first novel.
Matthew Sweet on the idea of 'gut instinct'. Plus the ballet Woolf Works and Agnes Varda.
Alain de Botton, Tahmima Anam and AL Kennedy join Anne McElvoy to talk about love in prose
Rana Mitter and guests Azar Nafisi, David Brooks and Tom Holland discuss humility.
Matthew Sweet explores Carsten Holler's art and discusses the idea of the 'freak'.
AL Kennedy, Virginia Ironside and Francis O'Gorman discuss worrying in literature and life
Philip Dodd on the links between dance, art and the brain. Plus the meaning of 'public'.
Rana Mitter discusses Pather Panchali with Tariq Ali and talks to novelist Sunjeev Sahota.
Rana Mitter explores the links between the behaviour of animals and humans.
Presented by Matthew Sweet. With novelist Frederick Forsyth and a discussion on emotions.
Steve Silberman on autism, Gillian Tett on silos and Lynda Nead on 'fallen women'.
Anne McElvoy discusses healthcare past and present with New Generation Thinker Alun Withey
David Yelland, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Sally Marlow and Barry Smith discuss alcohol.
Anna Fox and Chantal Joffe on Julia Margaret Cameron, plus Larissa MacFarquhar on altruism
Margaret Atwood, Arnaldur Indriadason and MJ McGrath talk about crime fiction and cold.
