Feminist and academic Professor Germaine Greer, disability rights advocate Dr Tom Shakespeare, artist Grayson Perry and Professor Mary Beard to find out what role visual art plays in creating and communicating body image.

On 22 December 2014, the Arts Club was the focus of a discussion on the BBC World Service. Anna Nunhofer, Families & Communities Co-ordinator at Royal Academy of Arts, explains how art can inspire marginalised and homeless people.

As part of a series of events on the artist Giovanni Battista Moroni, contemporary portrait painter Jonathan Yeo discusses Moroni's psychological realism in relation to his own work.

Novelists A. S. Byatt and Lawrence Norfolk venture together into Germany’s dark woods to discover witches, goblins, lost children and treasure.

This panel discussion explores Anselm Kiefer's use of heroic symbols, beginning with his 'Occupations' series from the 1960s.

An evening lecture in which art critic and historian Jonathan Jones discusses Moroni's 'The Tailor' and offers an interesting interpretation.

A free lunchtime lecture in which the curator of 'Giovanni Battista Moroni', Arturo Galansino, offers an insightful introduction to the painter's work.

Painter and Royal Academician Frank Bowling discusses his life and work with Mel Gooding (Art critic and author of the Royal Academy’s monograph on Frank Bowling) and Courtney J. Martin (Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Brown University and Specialist in 20th Century British Art).

Listen to a sample from the audio guide to the exhibition 'Anselm Kiefer', which is at the Royal Academy until 14 December 2014.

Author Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk about Kevin and Big Brother) reads her short story Vermin. On performing her short stories Shriver says: "When it works i like them better. I like being able to deliver a line well... It's nice to be able to deliver passages in the sprit that i wrote, so that you can hear them as i hear them." In partnership with Pin Drop.