Boris Vian, Arne N忙ss, Karl Ove Knausg氓rd, Javier Mar铆as, Nawal El Saadawi, Tale of Genji. All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Hannah Greig, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Kirkland-Robertson.
Catherine Fletcher explores the relationship between Cymru and Cymraeg - Wales and Welsh.
Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.
Anne McElvoy discusses the visionary poet with a composer and two literature experts.
Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about four friends in an age of upheaval.
Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoy茅 talk family histories with Matthew Sweet
Lisa Mullen & guests mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of London's Barbican centre
The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Lucy Holland, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Shahidha Bari.
From the Victorian craze to modern takes on Norse myths, Netflix and archaeological finds.
Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.
Shahidha Bari talks to authors about writing love stories set against troubling times.
An exploration of the cultural and social history of paper.
Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull.
Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin Le Gendre and Owen Hatherley build up a manifesto.
Novelists Mircea C膬rt膬rescu and Georgina Harding and historian Philippe Sands on Romania.
Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.
The mermaid-like figure from medieval folklore is discussed by Shahidha Bari and guests.
Shahidha Bari and guests read Logue's version of 成人快手r's Iliad and look at its language.
Liz Lochead is one of Anne McElvoy's guests discussing how to update Moli猫re.
Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published.
One of the key French existentialists in the 50s, how does Simone de Beauvoir read today?
Matthew Sweet and guests re-read John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel from 1951.
How an East German creative writing class fought the cold war - was their poetry any good?
New ways of thinking about global problems - Rana Mitter reads this year's shortlist.
