Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry & Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict
Holocaust history
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) Anne McElvoy hears testimony and new research
The Kyoto School
Chris Harding investigates the flourishing of Japanese philosophy in the 1930s and beyond
Heidegger & Antisemitism
Matthew Sweet discusses the influential German philosopher's relationship with Nazism
What is normal?
Sarah Chaney, Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman on neurodiversity, with Matthew Sweet
Shakespeare's Women
The women who crop up in Shakespeare's life, his plays and who helped conserve his legacy
Dust, dirt and domesticity
From mould to desertification Naomi Paxton and guests on the impact of dirt,heat and damp
Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma
Essay writing
From Montaigne to modern Scottish writing - Rana Mitter discusses what makes a good Essay
Travel, pleasure and peril
From preventing strangulation on the railways to guide maps and the art of travel posters
