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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Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Anne McElvoy and sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard
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Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighborhood.
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From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Matthew Sweet visits The Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.
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Renzo Piano
Wed 4 Jul 2018
The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard
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What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.
Wed 4 Jul 2018
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.
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Fun 蜜芽传媒, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA
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The body, past and present
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Beauty - Renaissance to the present. Chantal Joffe & Heather Widdows with Anne McElvoy
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The Working Lunch and Food in History
Wed 27 Jun 2018
How the Victorians changed lunch, Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman鈥檚 Rights
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence
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John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower
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Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England
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The Forgotten German Princess
Fri 22 Jun 2018
The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.
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Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure
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Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas
Thu 21 Jun 2018
The man who loved our trees and woods and new ideas of what they were and might become
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Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Colin Grant Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari
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The Word For World Is Forest
Tue 19 Jun 2018
Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel + Paul Foot Award.
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The Piano and Love
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
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Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
Wed 13 Jun 2018
Philip Dodd explores the Intellectual Dark Web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray + Ed Husain
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Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs to rethink + Gulzaar Barn on medical trials
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The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.
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Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university
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The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Wed 6 Jun 2018
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy
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American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.
Fri 1 Jun 2018
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman plus the careers picked by psychopaths.
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Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Wed 30 May 2018
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
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Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel V谩squez and Javier Cercas
Tue 29 May 2018
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
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Tacita Dean; Mountains, John Tyndall
Thu 24 May 2018
The landscape of an artist鈥檚 imagination plus how mountaineering inspired a physicist
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The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
Wed 23 May 2018
Rana Mitter and the 6 shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy
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In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)
Wed 23 May 2018
Novelist Philip Roth talks to Philip Dodd about his life and work. (R3 Night Waves 2008)
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Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch
Tue 22 May 2018
Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.
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Jordan B Peterson
Thu 17 May 2018
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets the YouTube star.
