Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal

Girl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason

• 57 mins

Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife

Winning and losing with Lea Ypi, Peter Hitchens, Michael Mansfield KC and Cath Bishop.

• 57 mins

Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest

Matthew Sweet with David Willetts, Elizabeth Oldfield, Will Davies, Tiffany Watt Smith

• 56 mins

New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers

Introducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme

• 44 mins

Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.

Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy

• 56 mins

Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?

Margaret MacMillan, David Aaronovitch, Phillip Blond and Gisela Stuart join Matthew Sweet

• 57 mins

The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

Stephen Bush, Dr Sarah Jilani , Kate Maltby and Keith Shiri join Matthew Sweet

• 56 mins

Generations - D-Day - Global Instability

Eliza Filby, Rana Mitter, Jo Hamya, Tom Simpson, plus Gaby Hinsliff

• 56 mins

History - the long and short of it

Peter Frankopan, Alison Light, Bronwen Maddox & Zeinab Badawi join Matthew Sweet

• 56 mins

The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring, Rob Newman & Fay Dowker consider Time with Matthew Sweet

• 56 mins

Escapism

Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape

• 56 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 56 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 56 mins

Crisis & Decision

Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment

• 56 mins

The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute

Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst

• 56 mins

Reading & Empathy

With Shahidha Bari and guests

• 56 mins

Childhood and innocence

Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper

• 56 mins

Insiders & Outsiders

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond

• 56 mins

Are we all American now?

3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter

• 56 mins

Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes

• 57 mins

Milton and our modern world

It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce

• 56 mins

Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon

• 56 mins

Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

Sir Nigel Sheinwald,Clare Jackson, Holly Furneaux and Bronwen Maddox discuss diplomacy

• 56 mins

Gifts and Gratitude

Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving

• 56 mins

How we think about evil

Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil

• 56 mins

Luck, predictability and superstition

Dr Christian Busch, Bobby Seagull, Sharron Davies, Dr Kate Tomas and Timandra Harkness.

• 57 mins

Beer, Crisps and the British pub

Tim Martin, Natalie Whittle, Prof Philip Howell, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Ben Wright.

• 56 mins

Knowing When To Stop

From art to activism, campaigning to cabaret, Shahidha Bari asks when is enough enough?

• 57 mins