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 - Luxury
Mon 9 Apr 2012
Philip Dodd explores our passion for luxury in an age of austerity. Is it a sin or the...
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Night Waves - La Grande Illusion
Thu 5 Apr 2012
Anne McElvoy presents a landmark edition on the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion.
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Night Waves - Sculptured Carving
Wed 4 Apr 2012
Philip Dodd goes to Kew Gardens in London to watch David Nash carving sculpture from...
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Night Waves-International Review
Tue 3 Apr 2012
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme, with critics...
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Night Waves Peter Carey, Museums, Daniel Everett
Tue 3 Apr 2012
Rana Mitter talks to the Australian writer Peter Carey about his new novel The of...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 8
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...
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R3Arts: Play Schubert for Me - Episode 5
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 7
Fri 30 Mar 2012
During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 6
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 4
Wed 28 Mar 2012
The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert鈥檚...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 3
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.
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Play Schubert For Me - Episode 2
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...
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Play Schubert For Me - Episode 1
Mon 26 Mar 2012
The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.
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Night Waves - The RSC & Filumena
Thu 22 Mar 2012
With Rana Mitter. Susannah Clapp and Michael Billington discuss the appointment of as...
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R3 Arts: Night Waves: Nadine Gordimer
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Nadine Gordimer.
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Night Waves - Tarkovsky
Wed 21 Mar 2012
Philip Dodd and Susan Hitch review the world premier of Jonathan Dove's opera, Life is...
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Night Waves: The English and Christianity, Four Horsemen, Miro Exhibition, Antarctica
Fri 16 Mar 2012
Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Anne McElvoy about why he believes that Christianity the...
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Night Waves: Eli Zaretsky
Fri 16 Mar 2012
Philip Dodd with an interview with cultural historian, Eli Zaretsky on his new book, a...
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Night Waves - Opium & TV Dramas
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet on 'Opium: Reality's Dark Dream. ' Corruption and pain relief, war and in...
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Night Waves: Miss Fortune, Jerry White, Lloyd Newson, Museum Narration
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Samira Ahmed is joined by Helen Wallace to review the UK premiere of composer Judith...
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Night Waves - Turner Inspired
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet discusses "Turner Inspired" at the National Gallery in London and Sue of...
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Night Waves: Going Dark, Disaster, Russell Banks, Bel Ami
Mon 12 Mar 2012
Susannah Clapp reviews a new play Going Dark running at the Young Vic Theatre.
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Night Waves: Eve Arnold, Khodorkovsky, Beauty in Evolution, Raspberry Pi
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to Eamon McCabe about the late photographer Eve Arnold, the German...
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Night Waves - James Robinson, Peter Gill, Claude Lanzmann
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet meets James Robinson who offers a new way of understanding wealth and...
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Night Waves - Landmarks: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Thu 8 Mar 2012
As we approach the centenary of Bram Stoker's death, Philip Dodd presents a Landmark...
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Night Waves - Paul Preston, The Stuff That Really Matters, Mark Pagel, Chung Kuo China
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Rana Mitter meets Paul Preston, whose new account of the Spanish Civil War is called -...
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Night Waves - The Future of Science, Financial Fiction, Alghieri Boetti & Atomic Time
Thu 1 Mar 2012
The historian Jon Agar and the science writer, Marcus Chown consider the achievements...
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Night Waves - Richard Holloway, Jonathan Safran Foer and Howard Jacobson
Wed 29 Feb 2012
Philip Dodd explores the boundaries between faith and doubt. His expert guides in this...
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Moby Duck, The Art of Peace, Appointment with the Wicker Man
Thu 23 Feb 2012
With Rana Mitter. Donovan Hohn talks about tracking 28,000 yellow plastic ducks lost...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore, A Small Circus, Jeremy Deller, Carbon Democracy
Wed 22 Feb 2012
With Anne McElvoy. Paul Allen reviews 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore. Translator Michael...
