Discussions/interviews: Slavoj Žižek, Xinran, Ivan KlÃma, Claudia Rankine, Pankaj Mishra All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Anne McElvoy explores novels set in Pakistan and Nigeria. Plus the art of Lockwood Kipling
Anne McElvoy explores the history and future of the Union Jack.
Rana Mitter and guests debate the meaning of patriotism beyond the west.
Alain Finkielkraut and Karim Miske talk to Philip Dodd about French identity.
Edith Hall, Chris Kissane and Matthew Sweet on what might be on a Brexit reading list.
Douglas Carswell, David Runciman, Eliane Glaser and Lynsey Hanley on elites.
Author Zadie Smith talks about dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences.
With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.
Including Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation, fashion at the Barbican and Norse gods.
Writer Teju Cole talks to Philip Dodd about Baldwin, Boko Haram and Black Lives Matter.
Rana Mitter discusses drugs and the Nazis, migration, and the metamorphosis of gaming.
Philip Dodd explores the art of Bhupen Khakhar as a retrospective opens at Tate Modern.
Philip Dodd explores Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
Anne McElvoy explores Germany with Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher and Haydn Gwynne.
Frank Dikotter, Xiaolu Guo and Xinran discuss the Cultural Revolution with Rana Mitter.
Matthew Sweet discusses home with Marina Lewycka. Plus art at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers Philip Dodd his solution to the migrant crisis.
Philip Dodd discusses British identity with photographer Martin Parr.
Philips Dodd explores Spanish culture and politics and is joined by novelist Javier Marias
Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India.
Anne McElvoy explores German historians' view of Hitler and reviews Botticelli at the V&A.
Film director Neil Jordan on writing fiction. Olivia Laing explores loneliness.
Anne McElvoy discusses Russian Eurasianism, the Soviet Union and Africa, and Eisenstein.
Karl Ove Knausgard talks to Philip Dodd in a programme exploring Scandinavia today.
