BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

New Thinking: Playhouses and Opera-going

What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?

Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality

The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan and a novel about a boy wanting to be an astronaut.

From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911.

Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity.

Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing

Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey

Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing

Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan

Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari