The Guardian Culture Podcast

Professor Willie Brown and a panel of experts discuss the legacy of the recession at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Adrian Searle steps inside a living installation by the veteran Californian artist – and chats with the inhabitants

In the second of our podcasts from the Cambridge festival of ideas, we ask if the recession is likely to decimate the arts, and what can be done to boost private funding

Cambridge Festival of Ideas: Professor Adrian Poole chairs a debate on the origin of ideas, with writers Lisa Appignanesi and Andrew Robinson, and academics Dame Gillian Beer and Professor Rosamond McKitterick

Adrian Searle finds the seven ages of man, from birth into a river of blood to death in the mouth of a fearsome-looking devil, are laid out in Grayson Perry's new work, The Walthamstow Tapestry

Adrian Searle is thrilled by the paintings of Californian artist Ed Ruscha, whose signs, cornstalks and burning gas stations offer a rare glimpse into the American mind

Standing in a room above a pub in east London, Adrian Searle is impressed by this hotly tipped American artist's first UK solo show – a cruise ship on a doomed voyage across the Atlantic

Adrian Searle takes us on a tour of the 'funny, serious and inscrutable' works arranged by artist Richard Wentworth for a new show at the Lisson Gallery

Adrian Searle takes a first look at Steve McQueen's new film, Giardini, at the Venice Biennale and is stunned by its ethereal melancholy

An exhibition focusing on Shah 'Abbas at the British Museum forms the starting point for a debate about the 17th-century ruler's influence on modern Iran

Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Hannah Pool

Some look saintly, some look cross ... Adrian Searle visits Francis Alÿs's tribute to Saint Fabiola at the National Portrait gallery

Mark Titchner talks to AC Grayling, Shami Chakrabarti and Jason Horsley about the role of art in an increasingly unfree society

Join a disorientated Adrian Searle as he takes a walk around the Subversive Spaces exhibition at Manchester's Whitworth gallery

Annette Messager's articulated-disarticulated, in Adrian Searle's regular audio series on major contemporary artworks