Self-help special! Featuring smartphones and an Agony Uncle
We tested the apps that promise to make us more productive, mindful and all-round better versions of ourselves, and discuss the (mixed) results with Tim Harford. Plus: your Valentine's Day sorted. Hos...
9 Feb 201733min
Culture stands up to Trump. Plus: Elif Shafak
From museum strikes to a micro-penis, how artists are responding to the US president; Turkey's most popular female novelist on Islam, feminism and her unconventional marriage; and lunch with the man w...
2 Feb 201734min
The Oscars dissected, and the man behind Brexit
Are La La Land, Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea worth the hype? Does Daniel Hannan have any regrets about Britain’s vote to leave the EU? And why did one British artist photograph every page of th...
26 Jan 201738min
The death of new music? Plus: Wayne McGregor
Did pop itself die alongside David Bowie and Prince last year? Or is it constantly reinventing itself? We debate the state of new music and look forward to the albums of 2017. Plus, choreographer Wayn...
19 Jan 201737min
'Pig-killing day' by David Szalay
'It is over before either of us has really understood what is happening.' David Szalay, whose novel 'All That Man Is' was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, reads his short story, specially wr...
29 Dec 201637min
2016: the good, the bad and the ugly, with Simon Schama
We try to make sense of the biggest cultural moments in a crazy year, from the brilliance of Beyoncé to the hideousness of hygge. Plus, the chefs behind the London restaurant Honey & Co talk about fea...
22 Dec 201634min
Politics and culture in the age of anger
Pankaj Mishra and Helen Lewis join us to discuss why everyone is so full of rage right now; Nigerian-American artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby on depicting her naked husband in her work; and what to loo...
15 Dec 201632min
Literary prizes as 'posh bingo'. Plus: writer/rapper Kate Tempest
The power - and politics - of prize-giving, from Dylan's Nobel to Beatty's Booker; Kate Tempest on what William Blake and Wu-Tang have in common; and a buffet with the man who jailed Iceland's bankers...
8 Dec 201637min
