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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
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- Retelling history in art and drama · 42 minHow do we tell the stories of the past, and whose histories get remembered? On Radio 4’s weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford is joined by three guests whose work…
- Global instability and the end of illusion · 42 minWhat happens when the certainties that underpinned the post-war international order begin to fall apart? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Naomi Alderman is joined by…
- John Berger and another way of seeing · 42 minCan looking differently at the world help us imagine a better future? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by three guests exploring ideas of art…
- Napoleon’s marshals and President Trump’s civil servants · 42 minWhat happens when the relationship between leaders and those entrusted to implement policy breaks down? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford is joined by…
- Inheritance – from stories to genetics · 42 minWhat do we inherit from the past and what happens when old stories are told in new ways? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Naomi Alderman is joined by three guests…
- Jon Ronson: men unravelling · 42 minFrom crumbling buildings to collapsing certainties, are we living through an age of unravelling? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by three guests…
- Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford · 42 minIn front of an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford Tom Sutcliffe is joined by three guests to celebrate poetry ancient and new and to explore the latest…
- Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value · 42 minWhat can we really know about the world around us and our place within it? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford is joined by three guests who explore the…
- Living with uncertainty · 42 minHow do we navigate a world where simple answers are often the most seductive and the least reliable? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Naomi Alderman is joined by three…
- Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us · 42 minHow did we arrive at an age of global instability, conflict and political distrust, and can democracy renew itself? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Tom Sutcliffe is…
- Life Online: Power, Risk and Resistance · 42 minHow has life online reshaped society in real life? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by 3 guests who are investigating the digital sphere, and in…
- Working-Class Lives: Identity and Political Fractures · 42 minWhat has happened to working-class identity in Britain? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford explores the political fractures within families and…
- Scientific discovery and misunderstanding · 42 minHow have we made discoveries about the world around us and how has our understanding changed when we got it wrong? Adam Rutherford hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which…
- Searching for economic solutions · 42 minWhat are the biggest problems facing the economy - and how might we set about dealing with them - from inequality to inflation, domestic growth to geopolitics? On Radio 4's…
- Mythmaking at Hay: from Medea to Rasputin · 42 minIn front of an audience at the Hay Festival, Tom Sutcliffe hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which starts the week, bringing together three thinkers who each, in different…
- Farming, food production and rural life · 43 minWhat is the future of farming and rural life? Adam Rutherford hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which starts the week, asking about the future of food production and the…
- German history · 41 minWhat can an art exhibition, a concert hall and Classical town tell us about twentieth century German history? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural…
- Laurie Anderson: Strange and Disorientating Landscapes · 42 minWhat happens when art, fiction and biography take us to places that unsettle, reorient and transform our sense of the world? On Radio 4’s weekly discussion programme, Naomi…
- Chemical Reactions · 42 minWhat can chemistry reveal about what it means to be human? On Radio 4’s weekly conversation programme, Tom Sutcliffe leads a conversation that ranges from the molecules within us…
- Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past · 42 minWhat can the things we create, keep and bury tell us about who we are? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford explores material culture – the power of objects…
- Challenges and solutions · 42 minIs radical change possible to solve some of today’s most intractable problems? In Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by three journalists to discuss…
- Zoos, sex and conservation · 41 minHow have the evolutionary forces that shaped animal sex and behaviour influenced the ways humans conserve, study and coexist with other species? As the Zoological Society of…
- Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today · 42 minWhat can past and present struggles over work and power tell us about the future of labour? Tom Sutcliffe and guests examine tensions between workers, employers and the state…
- Growing Up · 42 minHow do the stories we inherit, and the ones we tell, shape our journey from childhood into adulthood? In Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Naomi Alderman and guests examine…
- Consciousness and Identity · 42 minWhat makes us who we are? In Radio 4's discussion programme to start off the week, Tom Sutcliffe and guests explore consciousness and identity, and whether the face reveals our…
- Under the sea · 42 minWhat lies beneath the world's oceans? From the phenomenal infrastructure of telecoms cables to shipwrecked galleons and treasure and the sea creatures of the literary imagination…
- Reading and storytelling · 42 minThe UK government has declared 2026, the National Year of Reading. The numbers suggest that reading needs all the public relations it can get. Under a third of school children…
- Thinking about war · 42 minHow do we think about war? How do we imagine it, picture it and explain it? Adam Rutherford hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which starts the week, asking what we can learn…
- Breakage and repair · 42 minWhen society, financial systems and human beings fall short, how can we repair the damage? Tom Sutcliffe hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which starts the week, exploring the…
- Fun and games · 42 minGames are supposed to be fun — so what happens when the logic of games, points and competition escapes the playground and starts reshaping everyday life? The novelist and…
- Censorship · 42 minA lawyer, artist and curator discuss different examples of censorship and self censorship in Radio 4's weekly discussion of ideas to kick off the week. Tom Sutcliffe's guests…
- Biology, technology and the future · 42 minAdam Rutherford and guests discuss intelligence, genetics and the nature of reality. How are scientific advances in AI, cognitive science and genetics changing our understanding…
- Rethinking politics · 42 minIf trust in politicians is broken and the political system isn't delivering, then how might we go about fixing things? Can we revive faith in democratic government by doing…
- The arts and health · 41 minWhat is the purpose of the Arts? Can music, literature and visual art change our lives physically and socially, as well as personally? Adam Rutherford explores the power of the…
- Animals and Meaning · 42 minWhat do animals mean to us? Naomi Alderman explores how animals shape human understanding, from ancient burial rites to modern science. The psychologist Justin Gregg specialises…
- Poetry - reading, writing, editing and translating · 42 minHow much can we truly know about the inner lives of others? Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Miles Leeson and Karen Leeder to reflect on the challenge of interpreting the minds and…
- The Dark · 42 minThree visions of darkness as the days draw in. Adam Rutherford's guests for Radio 4's Monday discussion programme are a poet, a photographer of night-time and a National Gallery…
- Histories, emotions and identity · 42 minThree prize-winning authors in today's discussion programme hosted by Tom Sutcliffe: The German Peasants’ War of 1524–1525 was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe…
- Space, Quantum Frontiers and Cosmic Clues · 42 minWhat can the cosmos tell us about our past and future? Tom Sutcliffe and guests look skyward and deep into the quantum world to ask how much we can really know about the universe…
- Genes and hands: mapping character and health · 42 minWhat can genetics and palmistry tell us about how we understand identity, character and health? Adam Rutherford is joined by Professor of Zoology Matthew Cobb; the historian…
- Digital Futures and Information Crises · 42 minHow can we reclaim the internet? Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the digital age - its supporters and discontents. Tech critic Cory Doctorow introduces his new book…
- Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi · 42 minThreats to the natural world are the focus of today’s conversation. Adam Rutherford talks to wildlife biologist Jonathan Slaght, novelist Juhea Kim and criminal psychologist…
- Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch · 42 minIn her latest novel, One Aladdin Two Lamps, the writer Jeanette Winterson takes inspiration from the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights. But she calls on…
- Crossing genres with Wayne McGregor · 42 minThe internationally renowned choreographer Sir Wayne McGregor swaps stage for gallery in a landmark exhibition exploring his multifaceted career at Somerset House (from 30 Oct…
- Maps – lost, secret and revealing · 42 minThe Library of Lost Maps by James Cheshire, Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, tells the story of the discovery of a treasure-trove at the heart of University…
- Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes · 42 minOf the 7,000 languages estimated to exist, half will have disappeared by the end of this century. That’s the stark warning from the Director of the Endangered Languages Archive…
- Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war · 42 minThe economist Yanis Varoufakis found himself in the eye of the storm as Greece’s Minister of Finance in 2015, at the height of the country’s debt crisis. Now he reflects on his…
- Steven Pinker on common knowledge · 42 minThe experimental cognitive psychologist and popular science writer, Steven Pinker delves into the intricacies of human interactions in his latest book, ‘When Everyone Knows That…
- Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford · 42 minAt the Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford, Tom Sutcliffe and guests explore the history and culture of the city, and nation, through its poetry and stories. From…
- Afghanistan and the DRC · 42 minLyse Doucet tells the history of Afghanistan in recent decades through the story of the Inter-Continental hotel, which opened in the capital in 1969. The BBC’s international…
