Isabella Rosner, Jade Halbert, Danielle Dove, Rianna Norbert-David join Shahidha Bari to look at the history of stage costumes, embroidery, Jewish tailoring, second hand clothes Show more

"I made this song up one day when I was hitchhiking down the road out of Reno" - the start of a Woody Guthrie Letter now in the Library of Congress. Do people still thumb a lift? Show more

Stories about our maritime past feed our image of ourselves as a seafaring nation. New historical research goes deeper and finds a more nuanced picture. Show more

Matthew Sweet looks at the films nominated for this year's Academy Awards and celebrates the female stars of the silent era. Show more

Writer Colm Toibin, Swedish Cultural Attaché Ellen Wettmark and film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh join Matthew Sweet to explore Ingmar Berman's 1957 film Wild Strawberries. Show more

Writer Bea Campbell, artist Scottee, historian Emma Griffin, journalist Simon Jenkins & economist Guy Standing join Philip Dodd to consider the working class in culture. Show more

Rana Mitter talks to Tariq Ali, novelist, historian, and political activist as we remember the 50th anniversary of 1968 - one of the most momentous years in recent memory. Show more

Shahidha Bari invites Veronica Strang, John Clarke, Susan Greaney, and Charles Rangeley-Wilson to debate the best way forward for our rivers reflecting on their past and present Show more

The walking & photographs of WG Sebald on show in Norwich plus an exhibition of money and Jewish history. Brendan McGeever, Adam Scovell, Philippa Comber and Sean Williams. Show more

Naomi Wolf discusses the criminalisation of love in her book Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love with presenter Matthew Sweet. Show more

Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter in the BBC tent at the Hay Festival to look at the environmental movement past and present. Show more

Joy Buolamwini founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, Anders Sandberg of the Future of the Human Institute at Oxford, artist Anna Ridler & Sheffield Robotics' Michael Szollosy Show more

A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI & Anne McElvoy talks to David Brooks and Hilary Cottam about compassion and creating communities. Show more

Rana Mitter hears about a project that assesses the experiences of Muslim women in the UK cultural industries and talks to political artist John Keane. Show more

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough hears how art should also be political from American sculptor Michael Rakowitz, how stories travel, and how to bring the past into the present. Show more

The East German army had a reputation for unbending masculinity so it's surprising how central queerness was to the enterprise. Show more

An audience at York Festival of Ideas is introduced to Beau Brummel and others who have understood the mixed messages of suits through time Show more

Glasgow's hardman - Alistair Fraser regales an audience at York Festival of Ideas with some of the high and lowlights of a story perhaps coming to an end. Show more

To mark Bloomsday on 16th June, Matthew Sweet is joined by novelist Eimear McBride, Finn Fordham, Eleanor Lybeck and Derek Pyle to discuss James Joyce's experimental novel. Show more

Philip Dodd is in conversation with the American author James Ellroy, whose books include LA Confidential and his latest, This Storm. Show more