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
From Picnic at Hanging Rock to an Iron Curtain Pan European picnic
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about sexual health, VD clinics, sex work and condoms.
Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality.
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
Matthew Sweet investigates the history, politics and economics of this elusive concept.
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
The writings of Chinese women, from Ding Ling to coming of age in the 1990s
Laurence Scott talks to researchers exploring how we sleep and the idea of sleep justice
Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry and Louise Brangan discuss secrets and conflict.
Shahidha Bari discusses the confection that has conquered the world.
From mould to desertification Naomi Paxton and guests on the impact of dirt,heat and damp
Sarah Chaney, Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman discuss neurodiversity with Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet looks at copyright rules for Mickey Mouse and Dickens in C19th America.
Shahidha Bari finds out how to win at rock, paper, scissors and to make a Windrush game.
John Gallagher gets sleeping tips from research pioneers and early modern history
Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration.
John Gallagher hears about Gaelic consonants, tongue shapes and accent prejudice
Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington.
Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers.
Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of World War II.
The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak.
Chris Harding with Luke Turner, Jeffrey Boakye and Lisa Sugiura discuss growing up now.
Writer Graham Caveney joins Matthew Sweet and guests.
