Boris Vian, Arne N忙ss, Karl Ove Knausg氓rd, Javier Mar铆as, Nawal El Saadawi, Tale of Genji. All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel, Paris Echo.
Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, Natalie Haynes, Michele Roberts
Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.
Writer Howard Jacobson delivers a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.
Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA.
Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel and discusses the Paul Foot Award.
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.
Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.
Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.
Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room
Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.
Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.
Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0
Shahidha Bari and guests debate the play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle and doubt.
Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.
Author Bernard MacLaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break.
Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the Kathe Kollwitz show in Birmingham.
Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from Gunter Grass.
Including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo's plays and Caravaggio's art.
With a discussion about medieval illuminated manuscripts, plus author Emma Donoghue.
