From moral questions to the quirks & pleasures of life: Discrimination; Death Rituals; What Nietszche teaches us; Witches & Woodlands; Spookiness; The Joy of Sewing; Kids Fiction
Shahidha Bari talks to authors about writing love stories set against troubling times.
Matthew Sweet and guests knock on the doors of perception.
How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?
From python skin to Nintendo gaming, PPE to vegan materials: how gloves are evolving.
Labradors Olive and Mabel became a Covid internet hit - can we know what a dog thinks?
Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull.
How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.
Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr, Germaine Greer v Norman Mailer. Have debates changed?
Tim Stanley on tradition and Steven Pinker on rationality. Anne McElvoy hosts.
Literally "breaking the fast" - Matthew Sweet moves from the Full English to Tiffany's.
As the clocks go back, Matthew Sweet and guests host a party for time travellers.
Punk often caused offence. Shahidha Bari asks if that idea of rebellion resonates today.
A history of indexes and ideas about tidiness, clutter and archiving in Ruth Ozeki's novel
Do poets choose their words or are they predetermined?
Novelist Tom McCarthy joins Matthew Sweet to explore glitches and what they tell us.
A teacher's view, a Frankenstein-inspired ballet, outsider status and circus paintings.
Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between the arts and coal mining communities.
Writer James Nestor, musician Soweto Kinch, Forensic Architecture's Imani Jacqueline Brown
Why does the grand country house party hold such power over the English imagination?
Hanif Abdurraqib, Dawn Walton, Adjoa Osei on black performers from jazz to the Super Bowl
Matthew Sweet's guests share some secrets as they ask: Is pleasure ever simple or guilty?
Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing. Plus Stevie Smith.
Sadie Ryan, Lynda Clark and Allison Koenecke talk about their research with Matthew Sweet.
Shahidha Bari looks at research into girls in film and fiction to Malawi health projects.
