Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari

Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal

Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today

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.