Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a old dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Essay - The Magic Years
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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The Essay - The British Writer and the Refugee
Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WW2.
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The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra
Louisa Egbunike explores images of refugees and Igbo rituals which continue to resonate.
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The Essay - Faith, Fire and the Family
Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
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The Essay - Creating Modern India
Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
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The Digital Humanities
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
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The Avengers
Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of The Avengers, 50...
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The Actors' Guide to the Emotions
From David Garrick to Sting's musical The Last Ship - how do actors convey emotion.
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Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised 19th c Redcoat
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Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War Two refugees.
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Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with BBC Radio 4's conversation programme & an audience at Sage Gateshead
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Sound of Cinema - Ken Loach and George Fenton
Acclaimed director Ken Loach and composer George Fenton have collaborated on fourteen...
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Sound of Cinema - James Horner
As part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, Tom Service talks to ten-time Academy...
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Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell
Carter Burwell is famed for scoring the films of the iconic Coen Brothers, from 1984's...
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Sound of Cinema - Baz Luhrmann & Craig Armstrong
Australian director Baz Luhrmann shot to fame in 1992 with Strictly Ballroom and was...
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Sinking Your Teeth Into Vampires
Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes
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Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
What the BBFC archives tell us about censorship debates & a film depicting Salman Rushdie
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Should biographers imitate their subjects?
The perils of writing biographies of scientist JS Haldane & Indian mystic Mother Meera
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Shopping Around the Baby Market
Gulzaar Barn asks questions about commercial surrogacy and the way we view our bodies.
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Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, Senna
Sherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships.
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Scientific Breakthroughs
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture
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Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England
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Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson
Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes of...
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Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.
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Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy
This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save...
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Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire
Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current...
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Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient...
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Revolutionary free speech
Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.
