Creativity, performance, debate
Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze, starring Lenny Henry and Roger Allam.
Young children listen to classic film soundtracks and invent original stories.
Thomas Dixon, first director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.
Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Philip Dodd explores the idea of betrayal.
Fiona Stafford explores our relationship with some more of the UK's best-known flowers.
A new fantasy adventure, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
Sean Williams takes a first-class journey through the enduring contradictions of luxury.
Ian McMillan is joined by Michael Ondaatje for a special edition of The Verb.
A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney.
Two writers and a poet in conversation about language, migrants and personhood.
A new fantasy adventure series, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
Bush Theatre's revival of a beautifully observed play about the immigration experience.
Author David Hepworth reflects on pop music's struggles with authenticity.
Bold new version of classic French drama about politics, liberty and corruption.
With Richard Scott, Fiona Benson, Jack Bernhardt and Jenny Lewis
With Hew Locke, Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri.
An exploration of the rich and surprising history of jazz in Japan.
With George Shaw, Kader Attia, Dreda Say Mitchell, Katie Beswick and Matthew Sweet.
The Verb on sexism and language with Ann Oakley, Siri Hustvedt, Salena Godden, Ingrid Plum
Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay.
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo, Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.
Comedian Viv Groskop explores what feminist dystopias reveal of our fears about gender.
