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Matthew Sweet and his guests explore the joys of food.
Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on wild swimming, Jake Arnott on Joe Orton
Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Jane Burnett discuss the literary power of the sea.
Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Heer Ranjha, Sappho
Including the Punjabi Romeo and Juliet and the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence.
Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia
Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy. Plus the 2017 Caine Prize.
Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US
Including the art of the black power movement and the history of racist ideas in the US.
Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Matthew Sweet and guests debate the contemporary relevance of ideas of poet Matthew Arnold
Partition: Novelists' views of India and Pakistan now
Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk to Anne McElvoy.
Washing in Public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)
Public pools, the 'steamie' and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe
Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the Kathe Kollwitz show in Birmingham.
Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.
Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum and Serhii Plokhy about Russian-Ukrainian history.
Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.
Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.
Royal Society Science Book Prize. Adrian Owen. Science in India.
Matthew Sweet looks at the writing of science and the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World
Author Bernard MacLaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break.
Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido
Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.
Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.
Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.
Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.
The importance of networks; the art of dance
Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair.
Blade Runner. Ghost Stories.
Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 and visits haunted places in Portsmouth
Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon
Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.
Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty.
Shahidha Bari and guests debate the play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle and doubt.
Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley.
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness.
The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?
Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from The Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall.
Landmark: Marnie
Matthew Sweet explores memory and Marnie, of Graham's novel and Hitchcock's film fame.
Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0
Young Marx, Marxism.
Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.
Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner.
Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.
Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art.
Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room
Britten and Radio.
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.
The pros and cons of Swearing
Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.
Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera
Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.