Boris Vian, Arne N忙ss, Karl Ove Knausg氓rd, Javier Mar铆as, Nawal El Saadawi, Tale of Genji. All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Writers Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Horatio Clare and Jacob Polley.
Laurence Scott finds out about 'Bad Bridgets', bush-ranger history and 'Home Children'.
Rana Mitter talks to Antonia Fraser about the art of writing historical biography.
Historian Hetta Howes, novelists Claire Gilbert and Victoria MacKenzie join Shahidha Bari.
As an Imperial War Museum show opens, Anne McElvoy and guests discuss art and the Troubles
Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley.
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of the American anthropologist (1961-2020)
Matthew Sweet and guests on the career of poet and monk Dom Sylvester Hou茅dard (1924-92).
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet (1917-2000).
Claire Harman, Kirsty Gunn, Laurence Scott and Shahidha Bari discuss short story writing.
Shahidha Bari is joined by Professor Marion Turner, poet Patience Agbabi and Hetta Howes.
Shahidha Bari talks to the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for creative daring.
Matthew Sweet looks at the writer of a dystopian psychodrama, Ice, who died in 1968.
Christienna Fryar explores the life and writing of the enslaved American poet (1753-1784).
The long history of climate change and empire: historians Nandini Das and Peter Frankopan
New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Michael Elliott and Mary Evans.
Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming-of-age tale Rubyfruit Jungle
From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.
How the Victorian author鈥檚 own pain and drug dependency fed into his sensational novels.
Are lists a good way of organising chaos? Lisa Mullen and guests discuss
Russell T Davies and Paula Milne on the power of soap operas.
New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays by Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters.
John Gallagher is joined by Gwenno, who writes and sings in Cornish, and others.
From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real.
