Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Proms Extra: George Eliot in Germany
Novelist Patricia Duncker and Clare Walker-Gore on George Eliot and German culture.
Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Law and Lawyers
What did Shakespeare know of the law? Geoffrey Robertson QC talks to Anne McElvoy.
Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Religion and Clerics
Religion and clerics in Shakespeare considered by Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London.
Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Soldiers and War
Colonel Tim Collins & Professor Emma Smith consider Soldiers & War in Shakespeare's plays
Proms Extra: The Politics of Shaving with Shahidah Bari,
Facial Fuzz: A short back-and-sided history with Kathryn Hughes and Alun Withey
Proms Extra:Henry James and Italy
Novelist Philip Hensher and Professor Philip Horne explore Henry James in Italy.
Proms Extra: Charlotte Bront毛: Gregory Tate talks to Joanne Harris & Claire Harman
Hear Charlotte Bront毛's biographer Claire Harman & Yorkshire-born novelist Joanne Harris
Proms Lecture: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the cultural legacy of the 2012 Olympics and the role of the arts
Free Thinking - Rio, addiction, and saying the unsayable
Anne McElvoy looks ahead to the Rio Olympics discussing Brazilian culture.
Free Thinking - War: Tear Gas. New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on the Spanish Civil War. Iraq.
Philip Dodd discusses war and modern memory.
