Arts & Ideas
by BBC Radio 4
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Estimated from 3 chart positions in 3 markets.
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- 🇰🇷KR · Society & Culture#5610K to 30K
- 🇻🇳VN · Society & Culture#863K to 10K
- 🇨🇱CL · Society & Culture#109500 to 3K
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6.8K to 22K🎙 ~2x weekly·1,000 episodes·Last published 1mo ago - Monthly Reach
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14K to 43K🇰🇷70%🇻🇳23%🇨🇱7% - Active Followers
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4.0K to 13K
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The Ethics of Knowledge
Jul 10, 2026
56m 43s
Trade and traffic
Jul 3, 2026
56m 45s
The Child's Eye View
Jun 26, 2026
56m 26s
Eccentrics & Outsiders
Jun 19, 2026
1h 54m 54s
Satire and Gulliver's Travels
Jun 12, 2026
56m 43s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/10/26 | ethics of knowledgeresponsibility+3 | Quassim CassamHavi Carel+3 | BBCRadio 4+1 | — | ethicsknowledge+3 | — | 56m 43s | ||
| 7/3/26 | tradecommerce+4 | Nandini DasJeremy Hunt+3 | Oxford UniversityFinancial Times+5 | — | tradecommerce+5 | — | 56m 45s | ||
| 6/26/26 | child perspectiveAI+4 | Katherine RundellJosh Cohen+3 | BBC Radio 4 | — | child's-eye viewAI+6 | — | 56m 26s | ||
| 6/19/26 | outsiderseccentrics+5 | Charles FosterJade Munslow Ong+2 | Lolly Willowes | — | eccentricsoutsiders+7 | — | 1h 54m 54s | ||
| 6/12/26 | satirepolitical commentary+4 | Andrew Hunter MurrayJan Ravens+3 | Radio 4The Times+2 | — | satireGulliver's Travels+5 | — | 56m 43s | ||
| 6/5/26 | wealth distributioneconomic morality+4 | Vicky PryceMaha Rafi Atal+3 | BBC Radio 4University of Glasgow+3 | — | wealtheconomics+6 | — | 56m 51s | ||
| 5/29/26 | freedomresponsibility+5 | Baroness HalePhilippa Perry+2 | BBC Radio 4 | — | freedomresponsibility+5 | — | 56m 33s | ||
| 5/22/26 | foodphilosophy+4 | John LanchesterFelicity Cloake+3 | Look What You Made Me DoRed Sauce, Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey+4 | — | foodphilosophy+6 | — | 56m 52s | ||
| 5/15/26 | self-improvementsocial media+3 | Elizabeth OldfieldAnouchka Grose+3 | — | — | Foucaultself+5 | — | 57m 02s | ||
| 5/8/26 | middle groundmid-life crisis+5 | Catherine CarrMark Lawson+3 | Who's the Favourite?: The Loving, Messy Realities of Sibling RelationshipsThe Good, the Black and the Boujee: The Story of Britain's New Black Middle Class+1 | — | middle groundmid-life crisis+5 | — | 57m 00s | ||
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| 5/1/26 | weaponspower+5 | Tobias EllwoodHew Locke+3 | Abertay UniversityThe Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires+1 | — | weaponssymbolic power+5 | — | 56m 28s | ||
| 4/24/26 | puritypolitical ideology+3 | David AaronovitchCatherine Coldstream+3 | King's College, University of LondonCloistered – My Years as a Nun+2 | — | puritypolitics+6 | — | 56m 31s | ||
| 3/27/26 | humilityphilosophy+4 | Lamorna AshSir Robert Buckland+3 | Don't Forget We're Here ForeverBorn to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite | — | humilitySpinoza+5 | — | 56m 56s | ||
| 3/20/26 | oracyeducation+3 | Reetika SubramanianEdith Hall+3 | University of East AngliaDurham University+3 | — | oracyeducation+5 | — | 56m 44s | ||
| 3/16/26 | aestheticsphilosophy+4 | Sarah SmythDr John Callanan+3 | University of EssexKing's College London+1 | — | tasteaesthetics+5 | — | 56m 48s | ||
| 3/6/26 | women's expressionlanguage+4 | Sara AhmedKaren McCarthy Woolf+3 | No is Not a Lonely UtteranceUnsafe+4 | — | womenlanguage+5 | — | 56m 59s | ||
| 3/6/26 |  Women, Language and Experience | In a special programme looking ahead to International Women’s Day on March 8th, Shahidha Bari looks at how women express themselves in language, argument, poetry and art. Her guests include: Sara Ahmed is the author of No is Not a Lonely Utterance Karen McCarthy Woolf's latest poetry collection is called Unsafe Lauren Elkin's books include Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, she translated Simone de Beauvoir's previously-unpublished novel The Inseparables and has a new book coming out in May Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power. She has been reading the new translation by Sophie Lewis of Angst by the French feminist thinker Hélène Cixous Mary Wellesley is a historian and author of Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers Ash Percival-Borley, military historian and former soldierProducer: Luke Mulhall | 56m 59s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | authorityleadership+4 | Justine GreeningMartin Gurri+3 | BBC Radio 4 | — | authorityleadership+5 | — | 57m 15s | ||
| 2/20/26 | criminal justice systempunishment+5 | Stephanie BrownScout Tzofiya Bolton+3 | University of HullBBC+7 | — | crimepunishment+8 | — | 56m 31s | ||
| 2/13/26 | working classcreativity+4 | Sophie WillanMichaela Coel+4 | BBC Radio 4Base Notes+1 | — | working classcreativity+6 | — | 56m 50s | ||
| 2/6/26 | political philosophymight is right+4 | Angie HobbsMargaret MacMillan+2 | Why Plato Matters NowIndignity+1 | — | ThucydidesPlato+6 | — | 56m 49s | ||
| 1/30/26 | productivitylabour+5 | John CallananBeth Malory+3 | King's College LondonUniversity College London+2 | — | productivitylabour+5 | — | 57m 08s | ||
| 1/23/26 | Double Lives | From undercover field operatives to online anonymity, via lives led in the closet and large scale infidelity, Matthew Sweet discusses the what can prompt people to lead double lives. With: Ashleigh Percival-Borleigh, Radio 4 New Generation Thinker, former soldier and historian, researching the lives of under-cover agents during WW2 Lawrence Scott, literary critic and commentator on social media and the double lives people lead online Peter Parker, historian of gay life in Britain before homosexuality was decriminalized, has documented decades of lives lived in the closet Clare Carlisle, philosopher and biographer of Soren Kierkegaard, who thought there’s always a difference between our inner selves and the face we present to the world Plus the actress Ruth Wilson, whose 2018 drama Mrs Wilson unraveled the story of her own grandfather's multiple livesProducer: Luke Mulhall | 56m 33s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | Victorian Values | What does the phrase 'Victorian values' conjure today? In Radio 4's round-table ideas discussion programme, Matthew Sweet and guests explore what we have inherited from that formative era in relation to political ideas, civic culture, aesthetics, and social and sexual mores. How does our view of the Victorian age match the historical reality? And can we move beyond stereotypes of repression and the stiff upper lip?AN Wilson, writer, biographer and historian Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston, crossbench peer in the House of Lords Sarah Williams, Research Professor in the History of Christianity at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada and author of When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for WomenFern Riddell, historian and writer. Her latest book is Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen (2025) And Matthew Stallard, Research Associate from the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.Producer: Eliane Glaser | 56m 34s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | Innovation | Are we addicted to novelty? What are the cultural settings that allow innovation to flourish? And are novelty and innovation things we've always valued? Matthew Sweet is joined by: Professor of Innovation Tim Minshall is the author of Your Life is Manufactured. Writer and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan's most recent book is Embracing Uncertainty Agnes Arnold-Foster has written Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion Christina Faraday is the author of The Story of Tudor Art Nick Hilton is presenter of The Ned Ludd Radio Hour podcastProducer: Luke Mulhall | 56m 38s | ||||||
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Chart history for Arts & Ideas
Peaked at #56 in South Korea, currently #56 in South Korea.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | — | #56 | #56 | — |
| VN | — | #86 | #86 | — |
| CL | — | #109 | #109 | — |
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.