If you don’t do the arts, does that make you a bad person? If you do, does it make you a good person? In what way? Are books better when they win prizes? What’s behind the phenomenal rise of the choir? Does tradition mean anything anymore in the arts? And who was the greatest artist ever?

STRAND CONVENORS: Wendy Earle and Tiffany Jenkins.

INTRODUCED BY: Wendy Earle, impacts and knowledge exchange manager, Birkbeck, University of London; convenor, Academy of Ideas Arts and Society Forum.