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.
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Loss, Grief and Anger
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Lisa Appignanesi; Heather O'Neill; Cherie Dimaline; Pacific Arts Adviser, Jo Walsh
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Slavoj 沤i啪ek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Wed 26 Sep 2018
Philip Dodd and guests explore the value of causing offence.
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The Goodies
Tue 25 Sep 2018
Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show
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What Nietzsche teaches us
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today
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What Camus and Claude L茅vi-Strauss teach us
Wed 19 Sep 2018
Being an outsider and learning to think like an outsider
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What St Augustine teaches us
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Anne McElvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace
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Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.
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Sebastian Faulks
Thu 13 Sep 2018
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel Paris Echo.
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Women Finding a Voice
Wed 12 Sep 2018
Deborah Frances-White host of The Guilty Feminist pod, Natalie Haynes, Mich猫le Roberts
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Design
Wed 12 Sep 2018
Including a report from the London Design Biennale and film historian Peter Biskind.
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Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Mon 3 Sep 2018
Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature
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Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.
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Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden鈥檚 The Age of Anxiety
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Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
Thu 23 Aug 2018
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.
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Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Mon 20 Aug 2018
Matthew Sweet talks Jaws with shark expert Gareth Fraser and novelist Will Self.
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Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Wed 15 Aug 2018
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
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Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
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Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
Mon 13 Aug 2018
With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska
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Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Mon 6 Aug 2018
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
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Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Mon 6 Aug 2018
Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK
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Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.
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Proms Plus: Mountains
Mon 30 Jul 2018
Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity
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Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Sat 28 Jul 2018
Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction
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Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life
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Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds
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Proms Plus: The Wanderer
Wed 25 Jul 2018
Lauren Elkin & Se谩n Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.
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Proms Plus 鈥� exploring the narrative voice in literature
Sat 21 Jul 2018
Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature
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Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Tue 17 Jul 2018
Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.
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Howard Jacobson
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Writer Howard Jacobson with a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.
