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 Love, Catholicism, Roger Corman, Red Dog
Tue 21 Feb 2012
With Matthew Sweet. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner and the author Lisa Appignanesi...
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Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi
Fri 17 Feb 2012
With Anne McElvoy. We discuss the fraught relationship between religion and politics.
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Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons
Thu 16 Feb 2012
With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...
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Elif Safak at Free Thinking Festival
Wed 15 Feb 2012
The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter in an interview recorded at last...
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Picasso, Baka Doc, Speed-Dating, Josie Rourke
Tue 14 Feb 2012
With Matthew Sweet. Artist Brad Lochore reviews a new exhibition at Tate Britain: and...
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Lawrence Durrell, Kate Grenville, Cullen Murphy, Gene Sharp
Tue 7 Feb 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Cullen Murphy about his new book, God's Jury. Matthew Sweet takes...
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The Trial of Ubu, David Scheffer & The Hajj
Wed 1 Feb 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to David Scheffer, architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunal and...
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Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics
Wed 25 Jan 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also...
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Artistic Endeavours
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Scientific Breakthroughs
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Greed
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Population Growth
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens
Mon 19 Dec 2011
In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...
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Is Politics Dead?
Mon 12 Dec 2011
As Europe struggles to manage the current financial crisis we are seeing un-elected...
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International Review
Mon 12 Dec 2011
Matthew Sweet entertains guests from Ghana, Italy, India and Egypt to discuss Saladin,...
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Were the Luddites Right?
Thu 1 Dec 2011
Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their...
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Charles Jencks
Fri 25 Nov 2011
Landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled the...
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Thu 24 Nov 2011
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.
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Susie Orbach
Tue 22 Nov 2011
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change.
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The impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life
Fri 18 Nov 2011
How will our world change as traditional energy supplies shrink and climate change us...
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Aditya Chakrabortty
Fri 18 Nov 2011
Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society.
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Can We Stop the Mania for Change?
Thu 17 Nov 2011
Philip Dodd chairs a debate on the obsession with change, at the 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 Free 2011...
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Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to Improve
Wed 16 Nov 2011
Julian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and...
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Linda Colley
Mon 14 Nov 2011
Leading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how we have dealt with periods of in us...
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Germaine Greer
Fri 11 Nov 2011
Germaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at the 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3...
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Kevin Fong
Thu 10 Nov 2011
Kevin Fong, who presents 蜜芽传媒2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, a 3...
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The Foreign Secretary William Hague
Wed 9 Nov 2011
William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's...
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Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Tue 8 Nov 2011
Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk...
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Mon 7 Nov 2011
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...
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Francis Wells
Mon 7 Nov 2011
One of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the his...
