Scottish Kingship

Medieval myth making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny.

• 44 mins

Happiness

Matthew Sweet investigates the history, politics and economics of this elusive concept.

• 44 mins

Approaches to death

Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper

• 44 mins

Writing Place

Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the River Arun in Sussex.

• 44 mins

Pranks

Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.

• 44 mins

Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

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

• 57 mins

Change, Scrabble and Cultural Christianity

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

• 57 mins

Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

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

• 57 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