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 discusses what happened to the Arab Spring five years on.
Philip Dodd debates the question 'does France have to stop being French to survive?'.
Claudia Rankine gives a lecture exploring language and racism past and present.
Ideas of home: Marilynne Robinson, Edwin Heathcote, Thomas Harding, Imtiaz Dharker.
Anne McElvoy talks to Janice Galloway about explorations of Scottishness.
Philip Dodd discusses community with Toby Young and looks at historic images of Newcastle.
Matthew Sweet examines Welsh politics and poetry with Gwyneth Lewis and Iain Sinclair.
Philip Dodd investigates the tension between cosmopolitanism and the nation state.
Philip Dodd discusses the value of the arts and the notion of social identity in Europe.
A discussion exploring protest, foreign policy, intervention and peace-making.
Philip Dodd talks to Czech novelist Ivan Klima and asks if Europe always needs an East.
Anne McElvoy discusses unrest in Ukraine and the state of dissent in Russia today.
Rana Mitter talks to Zhang Weiwei, one of China's leading public intellectuals.
