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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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.
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Designing the future
Thu 17 May 2018
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
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John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism
Wed 16 May 2018
Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.
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What is Speech?
Thu 10 May 2018
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox
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Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
Wed 9 May 2018
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing
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Out of Control?
Tue 8 May 2018
Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.
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Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars
Fri 4 May 2018
Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.
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Marxism
Wed 2 May 2018
Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.
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America: Inequality & Race
Tue 1 May 2018
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
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Tokyo Idols and Urban life.
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Tomouki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.
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Landmark: Rash艒mon
Wed 25 Apr 2018
David Peace & Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
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Japan and Nature
Wed 25 Apr 2018
The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy
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Learning from Sweden
Thu 19 Apr 2018
From IKEA to Bergman and ABBA - Matthew Sweet looks at Sweden's impact on Britain.
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Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer
Wed 18 Apr 2018
Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.
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The Politics of Fashion and Drag
Wed 18 Apr 2018
Shahidha Bari talks fashion with Jenny Gilbert & to Scrumbly Koldewyn about the Cockettes
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Marilynne Robinson
Thu 12 Apr 2018
The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter
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Macbeth and Things Fall Apart
Wed 11 Apr 2018
Jo Nesb酶 and Mark Ravenhill on the Scottish Play; Chinua Achebe's novel about leadership.
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British New Wave Films of the '60s
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Matthew Sweet on the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey and The Knack.
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Death Comes to Us All
Thu 5 Apr 2018
Richard Holloway, Kathryn Mannix and Kevin Toolis debate the end of life with Philip Dodd
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What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?
Wed 4 Apr 2018
Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.
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Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2018
Tue 3 Apr 2018
From piracy to vegetarianism, George Orwell to surrogacy, Newton's alchemy to C18 fitness
