Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
The art museum as community space, immersive art experiences & other hot topics.

Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
Artist Mat Collishaw, composer Jimmy L贸pez Bellido, academics Vid Simoniti & Sarah Casey

New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity

Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator

Refuge and National Poetry Day
Poets Momtaza Mehri, Julianknxx and historian Jes煤s Sanjurjo join Matthew Sweet

Slavic culture and myth
Matthew Sweet looks at the origins of creatures like Baba Yaga, Banniks and Rusalkas.

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