Boris Vian, Arne NΓ¦ss, Karl Ove KnausgΓ₯rd, Javier MarΓas, Nawal El Saadawi, Tale of Genji. All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950).
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk joins academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria.
Matthew Sweet explores our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text.
Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena, joins Anne McElvoy.
John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th-century Age of Exploration.
An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
Matthew Sweet and guests record with an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily BrontΓ« under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro.
John Gray, Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring discuss Powys's writing.
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.
Damon Galgut discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy
Rana Mitter interviews the shortlisted authors for the Wolfson Prize for history writing.
Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th-century city streets in our heads the right one?
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922.
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician.
Linda Grant and Boris Dralyuk discuss the writer Isaac Babel with Matthew Sweet.
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival.
Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII.
Donne, Hamlet, mathematics and the Tudor portraits composed by Vaughan Williams.
Japanese cultural experimentation: painter KyΕsai 1831-1889 and writer Mishima 1925-1970.
