Cultural discussion show. Tom Sutcliffe on a theory of everything with scientists Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose and Suzie Sheehy, and novelist Joanna Kavenna. Show more
As the 2016 London Literature Festival opens, Matthew Sweet chairs an HG Wells discussion with Louisa Treger, Mark Blacklock, Joanna Kavenna and Christopher Priest and an audience. Show more
Philip Dodd and the writer Joanna Kavenna consider the challenges of art in an age of irony and the work of Kathe Kollwitz; Lawrence Norfolk rereads the poetry of John Ashbery. Show more
Philip Dodd explores the writing of Angela Carter with critic Christopher Frayling, novelists Joanna Kavenna and Natasha Pulley and writer Susannah Clapp. The Reader is Emily Woof. Show more
Artist Dorothy Cross, author Joanna Kavenna, cosmologist Jo Dunkley and New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson join Matthew Sweet for a programme exploring mysticism and reality. Show more