Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies
Weird Viking Bodies
Marianne Hem Eriksen on the meaning of a skull bone carved with "pain" thrown onto a tip
From algorithms to oceans
Kerry McInerney explores the promise of the 鈥榮ustainable AI鈥� movement and how AI develops
Germany鈥檚 Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Cooper on the school teacher who tried to ignite a feminist revolution in Germany
Scottish Kingship
Medieval myth-making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny
Free speech, censorship and modern China
The writings of Chinese women, from Ding Ling to coming of age in the 1990s
Call Me Mother
How the shape of words for mother helps babies eat their food. Rebecca Woods explains
Edward Bond
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the playwright Edward Bond (18 July 1934 鈥� 3 March 2024)
Sleep justice and sleeplessness
Laurence Scott talks to researchers exploring how we sleep and the idea of sleep justice
Images of Persia
Poetry by Hafez, Nowruz (New Year) and the Haft Sin table, the Mongol invasion, music
