Arts & Ideas Podcast
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives 鈥� looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
Episodes to download
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Scented gloves and gossip: civility and news in the Renaissance
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Shahidha Bari discusses new research on the the ins and outs of Renaissance culture
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Love
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha- the science & art of love.
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Spike Lee
Tue 12 Feb 2019
The film-maker talks black power, blackface and Academy Awards with Matthew Sweet.
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Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds
Thu 7 Feb 2019
Quassim Cassam & Simon Beard with Matthew Sweet + RW Fassbinder's '70s TV sci-fi series
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Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
Wed 6 Feb 2019
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk
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Street Culture, Protests, Food.
Tue 5 Feb 2019
Philip Dodd talks to gilet jaune and novelist Edouard Louis about streets and culture.
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Sea Goings
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Rana Mitter with Katie Paterson Julia Blackburn Charlotte Runcie and Cutty Sark
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Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Wed 30 Jan 2019
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence
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Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Tue 29 Jan 2019
Writing about the Holocaust + the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain
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Consent
Thu 24 Jan 2019
How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.
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Slow Looking at Art
Wed 23 Jan 2019
Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.
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Oscars 2019
Tue 22 Jan 2019
Matthew Sweet & guests look at films making waves as the Academy announces its shortlists
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Icons.
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Do our heroes and heroines have to be perfect? We look at ikons, film idols & politicians.
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Tourism past and present
Wed 16 Jan 2019
The must see sights for Post Napoleonic war tourists, cold war travellers & hot spots now
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Walls
Tue 15 Jan 2019
Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall
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Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
Wed 9 Jan 2019
Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.
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Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Tue 8 Jan 2019
Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie
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The Digital Humanities
Fri 21 Dec 2018
How new technology is transforming research in the Humanities.
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Landmark: Watership Down
Thu 20 Dec 2018
An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.
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What does game playing teach us?
Wed 19 Dec 2018
Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.
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Ice
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Anne McElvoy & guests travel to the frozen ends of the Earth & C17 theatrical magic...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
Wed 12 Dec 2018
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd
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Writing and Frankness
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
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Are we being manipulated?
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders
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Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Wed 5 Dec 2018
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
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Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Wed 5 Dec 2018
Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV
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Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
Thu 29 Nov 2018
The director of Get Carter talks to Matthew Sweet about writing his own crime stories.
