What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs
The archaeologist Francis Pryor tells Shahidha Bari about a lifetime of building vistas of our history and prehistory through the evidence of pottery shards, holes in the mud and broken bones and pala...
28 Feb 201844min
The Joy of Bureaucracy
Red tape or accountability? Matthew Sweet is joined by Lord Robin Butler, former head of the home Civil Service, writer and lecturer Eliane Glaser and Professor André Spicer whose recent book looks at...
22 Feb 201845min
Steven Pinker on Progress
We should ignore newspaper headlines, believe that things are getting better and defend Enlightenment values. That's the message from Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He d...
22 Feb 201844min
Napoleon in Fact & Fiction
From Napoleon impersonators, his image in caricature and ballads, to a play which asks what if he didn't die in exile - presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by actor and director Kathryn Hunter, biographe...
21 Feb 201844min
Reflecting Rural Life
Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.
15 Feb 201844min
Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf
American artist, Mark Dion has a new exhibition on in London: Theatre of the Natural World . Dion is exhilarated by the natural world but tells Anne McElvoy why his art is about how we classify it and...
14 Feb 201844min
How Big Should the State Be?
David Willetts, Polly Toynbee, Baroness Simone Finn, Julia Black and Adrian Wooldridge join Anne McElvoy for a debate recorded with an audience at the LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0
14 Feb 20181h 11min
Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe
Philip Dodd talks to Michael Ignatieff about the political landscape of central Europe.
13 Feb 201844min
