Women Finding a Voice
Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist joins Catherine Fletcher. Novelist Michèle Roberts reviews a portrait of artist Louise Bourgeois woven from conversations, and comedian and cl...
12 Sep 201845min
Design
A silent room and a design to encourage disobedience are amongst the exhibits that Matthew Sweet and Laurence Scott visit at the London Design Biennale as they consider the role of Design in the week ...
11 Sep 201845min
Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Novelist Will Self, shark expert Gareth Fraser and film expert Ian Hunter join Matthew Sweet for a discussion about sharks, whales and the impact of the book and film Jaws. Jaws started out as a novel...
20 Aug 201844min
Howard Jacobson
Why We Need the Novel Now. Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson delivers a keynote lecture and talks to presenter Shahidha Bari and an audience at the Southbank Centre in London as part of the Man ...
12 Juli 201850min
Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard
Helaine Blumenfeld is a sculptor who divides her time between her family in England and her work-family in Italy. As an exhibition featuring much new work opens in Ely Cathedral, she talks to Anne McE...
12 Juli 201848min
Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
At the height of summer, Matthew Sweet and guests turn their minds to tennis, beaches and walking. As Wimbledon continues, Benjamin Markovits and William Skidelsky consider the philosophy of tennis; N...
10 Juli 201845min
From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living
Playwright Charlotte Jones, author Laurence Scott, New Generation Thinkers Lisa Mullen and Iain Smith join Matthew Sweet.Charlotte Jones discusses her new play set in a Quaker community during the Nap...
6 Juli 201845min
Renzo Piano
The Italian architect and engineer, Renzo Piano, talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers) to the Shard in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in...
4 Juli 201844min
