Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today

• 56 mins

Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal

• 56 mins

Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari

• 57 mins

New Thinking: Exploring the local

New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office

• 43 mins

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