Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Hobbes and New Leviathans
John Gray on why re-reading Hobbes can help us understand contemporary politics
Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival
Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers
Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski
Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen with Matthew Sweet
Notebooks and new technology
Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington
Why go into space?
Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration
Black Atlantic
Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
The Red Shoes
Ahead of a BFI festival, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Powell and Pressburger's film
Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy on a '70s US writing group. Lauren Elkin on art monsters
Wolfson Prize 2023
Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize
Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing
