Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, the film of Ian McEwan's The Children Act, Melissa Harrison's All Among The Barley, and on TV: Extraordinary Rituals, Rites of Passage. Show more

David Hare's Red Barn at London's National, Ken Loach's I Daniel Blake, HBO's The Young Pope, Sebastian Barry's novel Days Without End, Yves Klein retrospective at Tate Liverpool. Show more

Let The Sunshine In, starring Juliette Binoche, The Tina Turner musical, Aminatta Forna's novel Happiness, colourising historical photographs and BBC TV's The Woman In White. Show more

Incredibles 2, Sam Mendes directs The Lehman Trilogy starring Simon Russell Beale, Sacred Games on Netflix, Tim Parks's Out of My Head, and The Head and The Load at Tate Modern. Show more

Shahidha Bari, cultural historian at the University of the Arts, London, explores why self-expression is so fundamental to what it is to be human. Show more

Is digital and social media a benefit or a distraction at work? Plus, in the run-up to LGBT history month, the hidden history of the lesbian bar. Show more

Would insisting more Muslim women learn English encourage better integration? Plus living a decluttered life, long-term illness and friendships, and Margaret Drabble on Janet Frame. Show more

Sara Pascoe, Shappi Khorsandi and Helen Lewis in a quiz, plus a discussion of nudity, whether 2015 is the year transgender joined the mainstream and how to embrace change. Show more

Lauren Laverne and guests discuss clothes - what we wear and what it means. Show more

Intimate late-night conversation as Lauren Laverne and guests discuss nudity. Show more

This edition looks at a statue to honour Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole, a government inquiry into office dress, encouraging girls into sport, and surviving middle-age dread. Show more

Is Clueless a feminist classic? We discuss the films we return to time and again. Gemma talks to Shappi Korshandi about her new book Nina Is Not OK and to singer Roisin Murphy. Show more

Mary Decker and Zola Budd reunite, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez on her debut cookbook, exploring the Queen's wardrobe, Joan Ruddock on her life in politics. Show more

The Queen's royal wardrobe and 1947 wedding dress; author Mintie Das on The Sinking World; reporting child abuse; choral-orchestral work; reaction to news of terminal illness. Show more

Mary Beard, Mike Leigh, Shahidha Bari and Paul Morley discuss the ethics of portraying human suffering on the big screen. Mary and Dom Joly tour London's Jack the Ripper museum. Show more

Topical weekly discussion show. Mary Beard and her panel of guests - David Olusoga, Shahidha Bari and Simon Jenkins - discuss whether we can ever agree on the meaning of beauty. Show more

Female MPs and journalists discuss Brexit and the impact of the EU Referendum. Can you be forced to work in heels? And new statues of women steelworkers and Mary Seacole. Show more

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott discuss new research on supernatural fiction writer Vernon Lee with Francesco Ventrella. Plus what it means to lie and popular ideas of the 'coma'. Show more

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our perceived obsession with the self. With journalist Will Storr, authors Olivia Sudjic and Thom Jackson, and neuroscientist Sophie Scott. Show more

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore images of Canada, including First Nations art, Anne of Green Gables on TV, and poems and art posted on Instagram and Twitter by Rupi Kaur. Show more