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 - Hilary Mantel defends her comments on the Duchess 07 Mar
Fri 8 Mar 2013
Anne McElvoy meets Hilary Mantel, the winner of the David Cohen Prize for literature.
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Night Waves - Danny Boyle
Wed 6 Mar 2013
The Olympics ceremony master Danny Boyle joins Rana Mitter to discuss the British film...
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Night Waves - Heritage
Tue 5 Mar 2013
With Matthew Sweet. A first night review, by Susannah Clapp, of Peter Morgan's new The...
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Night Waves - Sex and the Arab World
Mon 4 Mar 2013
Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, joins Philip Dodd to explore how the a...
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Night Waves - Anarcho-Capitalists
Thu 28 Feb 2013
As extreme libertarian thought is on the rise in right-wing politics, Anne McElvoy is...
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Night Waves - Mandarin Finnegans Wake
Wed 27 Feb 2013
Samira Ahmed examines why James Joyce's experimental and 'difficult' work Finnegans a...
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Night Waves - Paul Foot Award
Tue 26 Feb 2013
As the winner of the Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism is a...
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Night Waves - Compassion
Mon 25 Feb 2013
Does compassion inhibit rational political debate? To discuss, Philip Dodd is joined 3...
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Night Waves - Le Grand Meaulnes
Thu 21 Feb 2013
A Landmark edition in which Anne McElvoy and guests look at Alain-Fournier's and tale...
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Night Waves - Ray Kurzweil
Wed 20 Feb 2013
Ray Kurzweil, renowned American inventor, thinker and futurist, joins Rana Mitter to a...
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Night Waves - Shlomo Sand
Tue 19 Feb 2013
Adam Mars-Jones reviews the first West End revival of the nine Tony award winning; A...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Aliens
Mon 18 Feb 2013
Matthew Sweet debates how the discovery of alien life might change the way we think it...
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Night Waves - Andrew Soloman
Thu 14 Feb 2013
Geoffrey Robertson QC joins Anne McElvoy to pay tribute to American philosopher and on...
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Night Waves - Sylvia Plath
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Matthew Sweet discusses the legacy of Sylvia Plath, who died 50 years ago this week,...
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Night Waves - A Life Of Galileo 12 Feb
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Mark Ravenhill on translating Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo; the value of the is...
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Night Waves - Amit Chaudhuri
Mon 11 Feb 2013
Novelist, poet and musician Amit Chaudhuri joins Samira Ahmed to discuss his latest on...
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Night Waves 鈥� William Dalrymple
Thu 7 Feb 2013
Anne McElvoy talks to William Dalrymple about his new book Return of A King - an of in...
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Night Waves - Nadeem Aslam
Wed 6 Feb 2013
Samira Ahmed visits the British Museum to see its new show about Ice Age art.
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Night Waves - Biotechnology
Tue 5 Feb 2013
Philip Dodd talks to psychologist Bertolt Meyer, the model for the world's first human...
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Night Waves - Richard III's Bones
Mon 4 Feb 2013
The King in the car park: what is the significance of the University of Leicester鈥檚...
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Night Waves - Timbuktu and Beyond
Thu 31 Jan 2013
Anne McElvoy discusses the libraries of Timbuktu, and what they teach us about and in...
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Night Waves - Shame
Wed 30 Jan 2013
Philip Dodd along with Dr Tim Stanley and Paul Glastris review the American version of...
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Night Waves - China's Silent Army
Tue 29 Jan 2013
Rana Mitter & Susannah Clapp review a new production of Simon Gray's Quartermaine's...
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Night Waves - Kurt Schwitters
Mon 28 Jan 2013
As the Tate Britain opens a new exhibition of the work of Kurt Schwitters, art critic...
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Night Waves - The Rotten Heart of Europe
Thu 24 Jan 2013
With the publication of a new, updated version of The Rotten Heart of Europe, a book...
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Night Waves - British Social Realism in Film
Wed 23 Jan 2013
This Night Waves special explores 鈥榢itchen sink realism鈥�, the cultural movement to...
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Night Waves - Manet & Sherlock
Tue 22 Jan 2013
Matthew Sweet with a review, from Lynda Neade, of the UK's first ever retrospective to...
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Night Waves - Lincoln
Mon 21 Jan 2013
This Night Waves special is devoted to Abraham Lincoln. As Steven Spielberg's new of a...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Pride & Prejudice
Thu 17 Jan 2013
Anne McElvoy settles decorously into Regency England to celebrate the bicentenary of...
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Night Waves - David Hare
Wed 16 Jan 2013
Philip Dodd is joined by the playwright David Hare whose play, The Judas Kiss, is to...
