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The Age of Earthquakes, Maths in Films

With discussions about the 'extreme present' and maths and mathematicians in film.

• 45 mins

Tom McCarthy, Asne Seierstad, Fairness

With novelist Tom McCarthy, journalist Asne Seierstad and what is the idea of fairness.

• 45 mins

Madness in Civilisation, Night Walking

Matthew Sweet discusses the history of mental illness. Plus a nocturnal history of London.

• 45 mins

Sociology in the 21st Century

Philip Dodd debates whether sociology still has a role to play in the 21st century.

• 45 mins

School Report - A Sense of Home, Beauty in Ancient Greece

Anne McElvoy hears from young people involved in the 麻豆官网首页入口's School Report Day.

• 45 mins

Culture Wars: Secularism v Religion

Philip Dodd and guests discuss secularism and religion.

• 45 mins

Peggy Seeger

Philip Dodd is joined by folk singer Peggy Seeger, who talks about her music and politics.

• 45 mins

Culture Wars: Cosmopolitanism v the Nation State

Philip Dodd investigates the tension between cosmopolitanism and the nation state.

• 45 mins

New Media Culture and Blade Runner

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new media culture and the film Blade Runner.

• 45 mins

Public v Private Art

Philip Dodd considers the idea of public and private art.

• 45 mins

Patricia Duncker, Adrienne Mayor on the Amazons, Harriet Walter and Guy Paul

Patricia Duncker talks about George Eliot, and Adrienne Mayor discusses Amazonian women.

• 45 mins

Sex and Numbers, Nick Broomfield, The History of the Audiobook

Including a new sex survey, a Nick Broomfield documentary and the history of the audiobook

• 45 mins

Landmark: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now

Philip Dodd with a special edition devoted to Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now

• 45 mins

Developments in Neuroscience, Krzysztof Zanussi, Peaceful Resistance

Rana Mitter discusses new developments in neuroscience.

• 45 mins

Process: Mexico in Words, Carmen Disruption, Christopher Doyle

Matthew Sweet with Francisco Goldman, Valeria Luiselli, Simon Stephens, Christopher Doyle.

• 45 mins

Violence in Culture

Frances Fyfield, Richard Bessel, Peter Stanford and Mayura Deshpande join Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Landmark: The Tin Drum

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss Gunter Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum.

• 45 mins

What does Global Shakespeare Mean?

Philip Dodd asks what we understand Shakespeare to mean around the world.

• 45 mins

Caryl Phillips, Stanley Wells, Ah, Wilderness!

Including Caryl Phillips, Shakespearean actors, South African protests and Ah, Wilderness!

• 45 mins

English Civil War, Indigenous Australia

Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape.

• 45 mins

Alberto Manguel, Alice in Wonderland, Fashionable Victorian Writers

Alberto Manguel talks to Matthew Sweet about curiosity and a lifetime of reading.

• 45 mins

Carol Ann Duffy's Everyman, Clive James

Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman.

• 45 mins

Julian Barnes, Bapsi Sidhwa, light-inspired poetry

With Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes and Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa.

• 45 mins

Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings

Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.

• 45 mins

Antony Sher

Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher.

• 45 mins

Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton

Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton.

• 45 mins

Agnes Varda, Gut Instinct, Scientific Research into the Gut

Matthew Sweet on the idea of 'gut instinct'. Plus the ballet Woolf Works and Agnes Varda.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy

Prue Shaw, Sean O'Brien, Nick Havely and Kevin Jackson discuss Dante's The Divine Comedy.

• 45 mins

High Society, Xinran and China's One-Child Policy, Decisive UK Elections

Anne McElvoy presents a review of High Society at the Old Vic. Plus Chinese writer Xinran.

• 45 mins

Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop, Mammoth Cloning, Fareed Zakaria

Colm Toibin on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Beth Shapiro on cloning mammoths.

• 45 mins