Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now

Vampires and the Penny Dreadful
Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
Two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world

Belief, Habit & Religion
Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history

Late works
Geoff Dyer and Dame Sheila Hancock discuss endings and lateness with Matthew Sweet.

ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the life of the German Romantic who died 25 June 1822.

New Thinking: Waiting
What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?

Sheffield reinvented
New words, music and film from the "City of Steel", presented by John Gallagher.

Slow Film and Ecology
Matthew Sweet discusses environmental thinking and a film made about rice over 18 years

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922

South African writing
Damon Galgut discusses his Booker winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy