Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.
What's it like to be banned from your own country or to have your writing spark a row? Rana Mitter's guests talk identity, borders, forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire. The Am...
18 Okt 201850min
Re-writing C20th British Philosophy
Putting women back into the C20th history of British philosophy. Shahidha Bari talks to Alex Clark about the 2018 Man Booker Prize, considers the thinking of Mary Midgley whose death at the age of 99 ...
16 Okt 201845min
Discrimination
Helena Kennedy on #MeToo and the message it sends that the British legal system needs to get its house in order. Plus power in Pinter's plays and rape in Chaucer. Shahida Bari talks to theatre directo...
11 Okt 201845min
Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future
The Scottish Clearances by Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh. The Farm, a new novel by Hector Abad is translated by Anne McLean The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier, Profess...
11 Okt 201844min
Drugs and Consciousness
Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head? Leo Butler tells Matthew Sweet about writing a play inspired by taking part in the world's first LSD medical trials since the 1960s. ...
10 Okt 201846min
A Feminist Take on Medieval History
How does Chaucer write about rape and consent ? What links Kim Kardashian West & Margery Kempe - an English Christian mystic and mother of 14 children who wrote about her religious visions in the 1420...
6 Okt 201840min
The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
.Museum directors from USA, Austria and Britain look at the challenges of displaying their collections for new audiences. Anne McElvoy's guests include Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles Count...
4 Okt 201844min
Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, Spookiness and Fear.
Matthew Sweet talks to the author of The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry, about her re-imagining of the Melmoth story, first published in 1920 by the Irish playwright, novelist and clergyman Charles Maturi...
3 Okt 201846min
