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The Working Lunch and Food in History

How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.

• 45 mins

The body, past and present

Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.

• 45 mins

Olivia Laing, Fun Home

Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA.

• 45 mins

What do you call a stranger? - The Caine Prize - NHS ideals.

Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.

• 45 mins

Renzo Piano

The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard

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From 18th-century automata to superheroes and digital living

Matthew Sweet visits the Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.

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Philosophical tennis, Hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx

Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighbourhood.

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Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding, Stella Tillyard

Anne McElvoy with sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard

• 45 mins

Howard Jacobson

Writer Howard Jacobson delivers a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.

• 45 mins

Design

Including a report from the London Design Biennale and film historian Peter Biskind.

• 44 mins

Women Finding a Voice.

Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, Natalie Haynes, Michele Roberts

• 44 mins

Sebastian Faulks

The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel, Paris Echo.

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What St Augustine teaches us

Anne McEvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace.

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What Camus and Claude Levi-Strauss teach us

Rana Mitter talks to Ben Okri about Camus and debates the 'untamed mind' of Levi-Strauss.

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What Nietzsche teaches us

Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today

• 44 mins

The Goodies

Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show.

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Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose

Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.

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Loss, Grief and Anger

Lisa Appignanesi on public and private loss and how to face its concomitant, anger.

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Rethinking India's connections with the wider world.

Gandhi's power, portable citizenship, Mehrotra's poetry. Rana Mitter with Amit Chaudhuri.

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Sarah Perry, Spookiness and Fear.

The author of The Essex Serpent talks to Matthew Sweet about re-imagining the Melmoth myth

• 44 mins

The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century.

Michael Govan, Sabine Haag & Hartwig Fischer at the Royal Institution, London.

• 44 mins

Drugs and Consciousness

Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head?

• 44 mins

Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future

Economist Paul Collier, Scottish historian Tom Devine and Colombian novelist Hector Abad

• 44 mins

Discrimination.

The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.

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Re-writing C20th British Philosophy.

Shahidha Bari with news of the Man Booker Prize and a discussion about female philosophers

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Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot.

Rana Mitter explores identity, forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire

• 44 mins

Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands

Marie Darrieussecq, Lisa Mullen and Dafydd Daniel on magic and dystopias.

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Playing God

Patrick Barlow on his play The Messiah, and Daisy Black on a new medieval mystery play.

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh talks to Matthew Sweet as his historical epic Peterloo opens in cinemas.

• 44 mins

The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction

Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.

• 44 mins