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Are we being manipulated?

Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders

• 44 mins

Writing and Frankness

Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.

• 66 mins

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd

• 45 mins

Ice

Anne McElvoy & guests travel to the frozen ends of the Earth & C17 theatrical magic...

• 45 mins

Trees of Knowledge

Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner

• 44 mins

What does game playing teach us?

Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.

• 49 mins

Landmark: Watership Down

An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.

• 45 mins

The Digital Humanities

How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.

• 57 mins

Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box

Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie

• 46 mins

Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette

Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.

• 45 mins

Boredom

Time and the value of doing nothing

• 45 mins

Walls

Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall

• 45 mins

Tourism past and present

The must see sights for Post Napoleonic war tourists, cold war travellers & hot spots now

• 45 mins

Icons.

Do our heroes and heroines have to be perfect? We look at ikons, film idols & politicians.

• 46 mins

Oscars 2019

Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists

• 46 mins

Slow Looking at Art

Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.

• 45 mins

Consent

How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.

• 46 mins

Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.

Writing about the Holocaust + the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain

• 45 mins

Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence

• 45 mins

Sea Goings

Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark

• 51 mins

Street Culture, Protests, Food.

Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.

• 45 mins

Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk

• 46 mins

Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds

Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series

• 46 mins

Spike Lee

The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.

• 46 mins

Africa Babel China

Histories of West Africa, 20th c China, art of translation

• 44 mins

Love

Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha- the science & art of love.

• 46 mins

Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance

Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture

• 58 mins

Patti LuPone

The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian-American roots.

• 44 mins

The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature

Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.

• 44 mins

Authority in the Era of Populism

Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts & Rupert Reid w/ Anne McElvoy

• 73 mins