BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival

Tom Sutcliffe with BBC Radio 4's conversation programme & an audience at Sage Gateshead

Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture

How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.

Can public Acts of Commemoration ever encompass multiple individual experience?

Reconstructing the thought-world of the middle ages

Shahidha Bari looks at new Gothic research with Nick Groom and Xavier Aldana Reyes

Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.

Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature

Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.

Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden’s The Age of Anxiety