Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?
New Thinking: Food
Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan/a novel about a Lebanese boy wanting to be an astronaut
New Thinking: Work and protest
From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity
Writing and Place: The Cairngorms
Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing
Writing and Place: Cornwall
Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey
Writing and Place: Wales
Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing
Writing and Place: The North-East
Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan
Writing and Place: Northern Ireland
Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari
