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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Free Thinking 2013 - Controlling Moods and Minds
Mon 4 Nov 2013
What is the neuroscience of depression, how does it affect decision-making, and what a...
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Free Thinking 2013 - How on Earth
Thu 31 Oct 2013
In a world of diminishing natural resources, global economic crisis and constant on we...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Power to the People
Wed 30 Oct 2013
Social media allows us to make our views known quickly but where does this public and...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Sarah Peverley
Tue 29 Oct 2013
A 15th-century English monarch was appointed by God and had absolute supremacy but how...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Zamyatin's We
Tue 29 Oct 2013
Yevgeny Zamyatin's experiences in the Tyne shipyards fed into his dystopian fable was...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Are We at a Tipping Point? Controlling Infection and Combatting Disea
Mon 28 Oct 2013
Increasing resistance to antibiotics is a threat to Britain which could be as as...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do f
Mon 28 Oct 2013
When Lindisfarne monastery was attacked in 793AD the monk Alcuin described the church...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Twenty Minutes - An Interview with Neil Tennant
Fri 25 Oct 2013
Neil Tennant, singer of pop duo Pet Shop Boys, grew up in the fishing port of North to...
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R3 Arts: Free Thinking 2013 - Michael Marmot
Fri 25 Oct 2013
Sir Michael Marmot delivers the opening lecture of the 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 Free Thinking 2013,...
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Night Waves - The Common Reader
Thu 24 Oct 2013
Matthew Sweet leads an elite party of literary explorers - Linda Grant, Aminatta Naomi...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Le Grand Meaulnes
Wed 23 Oct 2013
A Landmark edition in which Anne McElvoy and guests look at Alain-Fournier's and tale...
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Free Thinking - Michael Grigsby
Tue 22 Oct 2013
In the second of 2 programmes from Derry Londonderry Radio 3's Matthew Sweet examines...
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Free Thinking in the Summer - Derry-Londonderry
Mon 21 Oct 2013
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity...
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Night Waves - Eric Schlosser, Richard II
Thu 17 Oct 2013
Susannah Clapp joins Anne McElvoy for the very first review of David Tennant鈥檚 much...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Oh What a Lovely War
Wed 16 Oct 2013
Fifty years since Oh What a Lovely War was first performed, Night Waves pays tribute...
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Night Waves - Man Booker Prize
Tue 15 Oct 2013
Philip Dodd discusses the announcement of the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize...
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Night Waves - Captain Phillips, David Thomson, The Events
Mon 14 Oct 2013
Tom Hanks stars as Captain Phillips in the new film from Paul Greengrass; writer Kevin...
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Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo Ep.3
Thu 10 Oct 2013
In the last of Matthew Sweet's visits to ZSL London Zoo we consider our relations with...
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Night Waves - Verdi 200, Dayanita Singh, 2000 years of social media
Wed 9 Oct 2013
Social media, as old as Cicero and as revolutionary as Christianity? Tom Standage and...
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Night Waves - Masters of Sex
Tue 8 Oct 2013
Catholic theologian Hans K眉ng in his new work asks 'Can We Save The Catholic Church?'.
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Night Waves - Miliband, Slavoj Zizek, Ghosts, Melissa Benn
Thu 3 Oct 2013
Jonathan Derbyshire, the Managing Editor of Prospect magazine, and Observer columnist...
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Night Waves - Landmark: The Old Men at the Zoo
Wed 2 Oct 2013
In Night Waves鈥� second outing to London Zoo, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Angus...
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Night Waves - Jung Chang & Allende
Tue 1 Oct 2013
With Rana Mitter. Bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang discusses her new of in...
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Night Waves - The Clash of Civilisations?, George Grosz, Simon Heffer
Mon 30 Sep 2013
Samuel Huntington鈥檚 essay 鈥楾he Clash of Civilisations?鈥� was published twenty and...
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Night Waves - Cate Blanchett, The Ugly Renaissance
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Actress Cate Blanchett joins Samira Ahmed to discuss her role in Woody Allen's latest...
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Sound of Cinema - James Horner
Wed 25 Sep 2013
As part of the 蜜芽传媒's Sound of Cinema season, Tom Service talks to ten-time Academy...
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Sound of Cinema - Baz Luhrmann & Craig Armstrong
Wed 25 Sep 2013
Australian director Baz Luhrmann shot to fame in 1992 with Strictly Ballroom and was...
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Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell
Wed 25 Sep 2013
Carter Burwell is famed for scoring the films of the iconic Coen Brothers, from 1984's...
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Night Waves - Zaha Hadid, French Cinema Music, Cynicism
Wed 25 Sep 2013
Architect Zaha Hadid joins Rana Mitter to reflect on her designs for the Serpentine's...
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Sound of Cinema - Ken Loach and George Fenton
Wed 25 Sep 2013
Acclaimed director Ken Loach and composer George Fenton have collaborated on fourteen...
