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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Night Waves - Loyalty & Shunga
Tue 24 Sep 2013
In the light of recent revelations about feuding in the Labour party does it make to...
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Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo
Mon 23 Sep 2013
In the first of three special programmes from ZSL London Zoo, Matthew Sweet examines...
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Night Waves - Rory Kinnear
Wed 18 Sep 2013
Actor Rory Kinnear, currently playing Iago at the National Theatre, discusses the of...
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Night Waves - The Innocents
Wed 18 Sep 2013
A Landmark edition recorded in front of an audience at the British Film Institute as...
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Night Waves - Margaret Atwood
Tue 17 Sep 2013
Anne McElvoy talks to celebrated Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood whose latest novel...
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Night Waves - Simon Schama, Beeban Kidron, End of Human Rights
Mon 16 Sep 2013
Historian Simon Schama joins Philip Dodd to discuss his book and TV series The Story...
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Night Waves - John le Carre special
Thu 12 Sep 2013
In a special event recorded in front of an audience at London's Royal College of Music...
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Night Waves - Richard Dawkins & Tacita Dean
Wed 11 Sep 2013
Philip Dodd is joined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins speaking about his new...
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Night Waves - Women on stage, Wilkie Collins, A.I.
Tue 10 Sep 2013
Actor Diana Quick, playwright Jessica Swale and critic Susannah Clapp join Matthew to...
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Night Waves - Booker Prize 2013 & Patrick Leigh Fermor
Tue 10 Sep 2013
Rana Mitter assesses the shortlist for this year's Booker prize and speaks to nominee...
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Fri 6 Sep 2013
Ian McMillan, Judith Palmer and Don Paterson introduce the winning entries in this -...
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Proms Plus Literary - Louis MacNeice
Mon 2 Sep 2013
Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and poet Paul Farley on the work of one of the most...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Sound of Outer Space
Sat 31 Aug 2013
Capturing the sound of dark matter, comets and distant planets is one of the toughest...
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Proms Plus Literary - Billy Budd
Tue 27 Aug 2013
D.H. Lawrence hailed Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, a masterpiece when it was...
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Proms Plus Literary - Music & Cinema
Mon 26 Aug 2013
From the very first days of silent film to the contemporary CGI blockbuster, music has...
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Proms Plus Literary - Britten & Poetry
Wed 21 Aug 2013
Benjamin Britten's compositions were inspired by the work of many poets and novelists,...
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Proms Plus Literary - Rudolf Nureyev
Thu 15 Aug 2013
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century. His charisma and a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sylvia Plath
Thu 8 Aug 2013
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and the publication of her a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Romanticism
Sat 3 Aug 2013
Robert Crawford and Fiona Stafford discuss how the Romantic movement linked Beethoven...
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Proms Plus Literary - Michael Tippett
Thu 1 Aug 2013
Rana Mitter introduces an anthology of unexpected readings from the letters and of the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Light Music
Wed 31 Jul 2013
The writers Simon Heffer and Andrew O'Hagan discuss the halcyon days of light music at...
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Proms Plus Literary - John le Carr茅
Mon 29 Jul 2013
In a special event John le Carr茅 celebrates the 50th anniversary of his Cold War The...
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Proms Plus Literary - Staging Wagner
Sat 27 Jul 2013
Wagner's stage directions are notorious: giant dragons; underwater singing; horses on...
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Proms Plus Literary - Playing Falstaff
Wed 24 Jul 2013
What makes Falstaff, Prince Hal's fat, boastful and cowardly companion so irresistible...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poles in Britain
Wed 17 Jul 2013
Polish is the third most spoken language in the UK, after English and Welsh, and the a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Mahler
Mon 15 Jul 2013
Rana Mitter talks to conductor and music blogger Kenneth Woods to bust some popular...
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Night Waves - Boris Johnson
Thu 11 Jul 2013
In conversation with Anne McElvoy, Boris Johnson discusses leadership ambitions, what...
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Free Thinking in the Summer
Wed 10 Jul 2013
Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the York Festival of Ideas on whether we can afford...
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Night Waves - Egypt's democracy
Tue 9 Jul 2013
Philip Dodd is joined by the historian Tom Holland and the political scientist Salwa...
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Night Waves - Clive James
Mon 8 Jul 2013
Matthew Sweet talks to award-winning director Jane Campion about her new TV drama Top...
