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 - International Review
Tue 9 Oct 2012
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme, with critics...
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Night Waves - Paul Auster
Mon 8 Oct 2012
Novelist and film director Paul Auster joins Anne McElvoy to discuss his new memoir,...
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Night Waves - Don Paterson
Wed 3 Oct 2012
Scottish poet and musician Don Paterson joins Philip Dodd for an extended conversation.
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Night Waves - Open Access
Tue 2 Oct 2012
Education minister David Willetts and research chief Dame Janet Finch are in the to of...
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Night Waves - Eric Hobsbawm
Mon 1 Oct 2012
Following the death of the celebrated 鈥� and controversial 鈥� Marxist historian Eric...
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Night Waves - Jack Straw
Thu 27 Sep 2012
Jack Straw joins Anne McElvoy for a candid interview in which the former Labour the of...
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Night Waves - Mars
Wed 26 Sep 2012
As NASA鈥檚 rover Curiosity conducts its mission on Mars, Samira Ahmed presents a on...
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Night Waves - Louvre Islamic Wing
Tue 25 Sep 2012
Matthew Sweet examines the newly opened Islamic art wing at the Paris Louvre with Karl...
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Night Waves - Mark Rylance
Mon 24 Sep 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Mark Rylance, the former artistic director of the Globe.
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Night Waves - Ryszard Kapuscinski
Thu 20 Sep 2012
As a new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski is released, the author Artur Domoslawski 4...
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Night Waves - Howard Jacobson
Wed 19 Sep 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Howard Jacobson and discusses Zoo Time, his first novel since the...
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Night Waves - Sir John Major
Tue 18 Sep 2012
Sir John Major talks to Matthew Sweet and is joined by comedian Roy Hudd to discuss of...
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Night Waves - Sebastian Faulks
Mon 17 Sep 2012
Award-winning author Sebastian Faulks speaks to Rana Mitter about his new novel, A the...
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Night Waves - Amartya Sen
Thu 13 Sep 2012
Philip Dodd talks to the Nobel prize winning economist, Amartya Sen in the concluding...
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Night Waves: The Pursuit Of Happiness
Wed 12 Sep 2012
Anne McElvoy examines whether we place too much weight on happiness as a measure of of...
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Night Waves - Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot'
Wed 12 Sep 2012
Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' (1869) raises 'the good life' as an existential question that...
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Ian McMillan is joined by poet Wendy Cope and actor Juliet Stevenson as he announces...
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Night Waves - What is 'Enough
Mon 10 Sep 2012
What is the good life? Philip is joined in the studio by the commentators Robert Owen...
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Proms Plus Literary - Desert Island
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Which literary works make the most entries into celebrity choices on Radio 4鈥檚 is by...
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Proms Plus Literary - Mendelssohn
Sat 1 Sep 2012
Musicologist John Deathridge, introduces an anthology of unexpected readings about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Edward Elgar
Wed 29 Aug 2012
Award-winning film-maker John Bridcut introduces a selection of fascinating and about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Lyrics
Mon 27 Aug 2012
Tell Me on a Sunday lyricist Don Black and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr discuss the as...
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Proms Plus Literary - Ken Russell
Thu 23 Aug 2012
Glenda Jackson MP and film critic Mark Kermode celebrate the work of the late Ken the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Russian Classics
Tue 21 Aug 2012
Novelist Pat Barker and Revd Giles Fraser discuss with presenter Ian McMillan what can...
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Proms Plus Literary: Vaughan Williams
Thu 16 Aug 2012
Composer Anthony Payne introduces readings about and by one of the great composers in...
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Proms Plus Literary - Edward Gardner
Wed 8 Aug 2012
The Music Director of the ENO Edward Gardner, who will be conducting a concert of in...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Handmaid's Tale
Mon 6 Aug 2012
Veteran war reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sunset Song
Fri 3 Aug 2012
Poet Jackie Kay and novelist Ali Smith discuss one of the great Scottish novels, Song...
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Proms Plus Literary - David Hill
Mon 30 Jul 2012
Conductor David Hill continues the series in which leading musicians from this Proms...
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Proms Plus Literary - Arab Spring
Tue 24 Jul 2012
蜜芽传媒 correspondent Ed Stourton is joined by Ahdaf Soueif & Karl Sharro to explore the...
