Â鶹ԼÅÄ

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

• 45 mins

Young Marx, Marxism.

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

• 45 mins

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner.

Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art.

Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room

• 45 mins

Britten and Radio.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.

• 45 mins

The pros and cons of Swearing

Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.

• 45 mins

Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.

• 44 mins

Soviet Histories. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Svetlana Alexievich on Soviet oral history as literature, and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

• 45 mins

Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Boris Akunin and Zinovy Zinik talk with Anne McElvoy, recorded at Pushkin House in London.

• 45 mins

Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest

Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.

• 59 mins

Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ news head James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

• 45 mins

Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

Matthew Sweet goes to Canterbury, Portsmouth and TFL offices for stories of lost and found

• 45 mins

Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival.

• 45 mins

Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.

• 45 mins

Religious Belief

Philip Dodd looks at 2000 years of Arab Christians and the modern rise of Pentecostalism.

• 45 mins

David Willetts plus does scandal drive social change ?

The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts talks to Philip Dodd about universities in the UK.

• 45 mins

Gentrification

Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers.

• 45 mins

Documenting through photography and poetry

The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale and Kate Flint

• 45 mins

Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment

Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.

• 45 mins

The Joy of Bad Films

Weathermen member Jonathan Lerner on underground protest & The Disaster Artist reviewed.

• 45 mins

All About Eve: Stories of the Fall; Pregancy and Aphrodisiacs

Catherine Fletcher with Stephen Greenblatt, Islam Issa, Jennifer Evans and Sara Read.

• 45 mins

Landmark - This Sporting Life

Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league.

• 45 mins

Should we keep pets?

Anne McElvoy leads a discussion on the history and ethics of pet ownership.

• 44 mins

A Literary Salon.

With guests Malika Booker, Neil Brand, Katherine Cooper, David Aaronovitch and Jake Arnott

• 45 mins

Rethinking Tradition

Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment.

• 45 mins

The Invention of the Circus Ring

Matthew Sweet looks at the career of impresario Philip Astley and 250 years of the circus.

• 44 mins

Diving Deep

Diving as metaphor, occupation and study from Tudor times to the present.

• 45 mins

Landmark: The Odyssey

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

The In Between

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough considers airport lounges railway stations and liminal spaces

• 45 mins

Counterculture and Protest

Matthew Sweet with Paul Hartnoll, Tony White, Tessa DeCarlo and Paul Cronin on uprisings.

• 45 mins