Creativity, performance, debate
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk.
Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.
David Eldridge's conspiracy thriller examining the corrosive nature of paranoia.
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Oliver Ford Davies.
With Toby Litt, Holly Pester, Menna Elfyn and Rob Drummond.
Julia Blackburn, Katie Paterson, Charlotte Runcie, the Cutty Sark.
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.
Writing about the Holocaust and the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain.
Five creative individuals examine their own encounters with opera as an art form
Writers reflect on the work of celebrated science fiction writer Octavia E Butler.
Can the world鈥檚 greatest swimming instructor teach a terrified 57-year-old to swim?
An extended conversation with poet Don Paterson.
How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.
Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.
Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists.
Andrew Martin's five essays muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.
True crime in Tudor England as Alice and her lover Mosby plot to murder her husband Arden.
A fragmentary look at the writer Susan Sontag through her own words and those of her peers
Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall
The Verb visits Cornwall to celebrate the centenary of the poet W.S. Graham.
Michael Goldfarb returns to his cab driving and acting days in 1970s New York
Must-see sights for post-Napoleonic War tourists, Cold War travellers and hot spots now.
Hearing colours and tasting words with Hannah Silva, LJ Rich, Rob Drummond and Ruth Padel
Shahidha Bari, Josh Cohen and Sam Goodman explore the value of doing nothing.
