Arts & Ideas Folgen

Historian Simon Schama joins Philip Dodd to discuss his book and TV series The Story of the Jews. Stephen Hopgood and Clive Stafford Smith debate the pros and cons of the human rights industry, and whether it has shifted to serve Western interests. Director Beeban Kidron on her documentary InRealLife, which explores the impact of the internet on children and young people.

In a special event recorded in front of an audience at London's Royal College of Music Anne McElvoy talks to John le Carré to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking Cold War espionage novel, The Spy who Came in from the Cold. It's the book which brought him international fame and which was described by Graham Greene as 'the best spy story I have ever read'. He discusses his extraordinary childhood as well as the state of Britain today, and the revelations of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden.

Philip Dodd is joined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins speaking about his new memoir - An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist. Plus Tacita Dean speaks about about her new film 'JG' premiering in a new exhibition of her work at London's Frith Street and theatre critic Susannah Clapp reviews 'The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, a new play by Dennis Kelly at London's Royal Court.