Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

The Art of Innovation

Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth explore how art and science have inspired each other.

Radio 4,24 episodes

Episodes

ListGrid

Omnibus 4
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on how art and science have inspired each other.
18 Oct 2019,57 mins
Imagining Matter
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on imaginative roles artists play in conceiving the cosmos
18 Oct 2019,14 mins
Patterns of Thought
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on computer creativity and sonic art produced by algorithms
17 Oct 2019,14 mins
Protecting the Earth
Tilly Blyth on a new awareness of a fragile Earth in the mystical drama Edge of Darkness
16 Oct 2019,14 mins
Polaroid Perceptions
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on shaping artistic landscapes through Polaroid snapshots
15 Oct 2019,14 mins
Wonder Materials
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on industrial change captured in The Man in the White Suit
14 Oct 2019,14 mins
Omnibus 3
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on how art and science have inspired each other
11 Oct 2019,57 mins
Patterns from Atoms
Tilly Blyth on atomic design décor at the 1951 Festival of Britain
11 Oct 2019,14 mins
Supersonic
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on iconic imagery in the race to break the sound barrier
10 Oct 2019,14 mins
Forms of Knowledge
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on encounters between sculptors and stringed maths models
09 Oct 2019,14 mins
Humans in the Industrial Machine
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on anxieties of production control in the industrial age
08 Oct 2019,14 mins
Art as Protest
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on the furious artistic reaction to WW1 mechanised warfare
07 Oct 2019,14 mins
Omnibus 2
Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth explore how art and science have inspired each other
04 Oct 2019,57 mins
Celebrating Speed
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on the Futurists' lust for speed in a new age of cycling.
04 Oct 2019,14 mins
Capturing Time
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on freezing time in a speeding up world.
03 Oct 2019,14 mins
Dyeing to Display
Tilly Blyth explores the impact of synthetic dyes on trend, turn-out and taste
02 Oct 2019,14 mins
Reaching for the Moon
Ian Blatchford on James Nasmyth’s compelling images of the lunar surface
01 Oct 2019,14 mins
Plants on Paper
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on capturing and publishing images of the botanical world
30 Sep 2019,14 mins
Omnibus 1
Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth explore how art and science have inspired each other
27 Sep 2019,57 mins
Tracking Progress
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on rapid progress captured in Turner's Rain Steam & Speed
27 Sep 2019,14 mins
Observing the Air
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on how artists and naturalists depicted and defined clouds
26 Sep 2019,14 mins
Satirizing Science
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on the impact of Gillray's satire in a new chemical age.
25 Sep 2019,14 mins
Masters of Spectacle
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth focus on the drama and upheaval in Coalbrookdale by Night.
24 Sep 2019,14 mins
The Scientific Sublime
Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth explore how art and science have inspired each other
23 Sep 2019,14 mins