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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Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire
Mon 3 Oct 2011
Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current...
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Private Eye,Grief,Imran Khan,Thomas Friedman
Tue 27 Sep 2011
Anne McElvoy talks to Adam Macqueen as Private Eye turns 50. Matthew Sweet discusses -...
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New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentary
Wed 21 Sep 2011
Rana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to...
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Proms Plus Literary
Mon 12 Sep 2011
Poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and presenter Ian McMillan introduce...
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Proms Plus Literary
Mon 5 Sep 2011
Biographer John Carey and author Meg Rosoff join Ian McMillan to discuss one of -...
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Proms Plus Literary
Fri 2 Sep 2011
The death of Prince Albert 150 years ago inspired the creation of the home of the -...
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Proms Plus Literary: Dante and Andrew Litton
Thu 25 Aug 2011
Historical novelist Sarah Dunant and Margaret Keane, author of 鈥業nferno鈥�, discuss...
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Proms Plus Literary
Wed 17 Aug 2011
Matthew Sweet talks to Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar winning screenwriter of The Pianist...
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Proms Plus Literary
Thu 11 Aug 2011
Tariq Ali and Daniel Karlin discuss the writer Kipling and authors Val McDermid and in...
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Proms Plus Literary
Wed 3 Aug 2011
Playwright Mark Ravenhill and actor and writer Simon Callow discuss Faust with Matthew...
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Proms Plus Literary
Mon 25 Jul 2011
Kate Mosse and Edmund de Waal discuss great French literary classics with Matthew and...
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Arianna Huffington, Bertrand Tavernier & Hollywood portraiture
Tue 12 Jul 2011
Arianna Huffington talks about the launch of her online newspaper, the Huffington in...
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Light Fantastic, Raymond Tallis, Libya, New Generation Thinker
Tue 5 Jul 2011
Highlights from a Night Waves special as part of the Light Fantastic Festival weekend.
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Margaret Drabble, Emma Rothschild ,Stanley Spencer exhibition and Authenticity and the In
Mon 27 Jun 2011
Nightwaves looks at the subject of internet anonymity, visits a new exhibition of work...
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Arundhati Roy, Siddharta Deb and Retromania
Tue 14 Jun 2011
Acclaimed novelists Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb look at India as an emerging...
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Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, Senna
Tue 7 Jun 2011
Sherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships.
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Nightwaves
Tue 31 May 2011
Anne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book a...
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Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon
Mon 23 May 2011
Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders.
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Malcolm X, Diana Athill and Ai Wei Wei
Tue 17 May 2011
An overview of the legacy of Malcolm X, Diana Athill on her short stories, a new film...
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Night Waves - Vidal Sassoon
Mon 16 May 2011
In remembrance of Vidal Sassoon, Night Waves podcasts an interview with Philip Dodd on...
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Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of Iran
Tue 10 May 2011
Molly Dineen discusses her first collection of documentaries on DVD. Brian Christian...
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Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan
Wed 4 May 2011
Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose...
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The Avengers
Wed 27 Apr 2011
Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of The Avengers, 50...
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Michel Sheen, Cameron Mackintosh & Wim Wenders
Mon 18 Apr 2011
Michael Sheen talks about his role in the Passion Play in his home town of Port Talbot.
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Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Thu 14 Apr 2011
Edna O'Brien talks to Philip Dodd about her new book Saints & Sinners.
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Ai Weiwei, the value of Arts & All About Love
Mon 11 Apr 2011
Isabel Hilton on the artist Ai Weiwei and his recent problems with the Chinese state.
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Jim Loach, Victorian Prostitutes, Mrs. Dalloway
Mon 4 Apr 2011
An interview with director Jim Loach on his film Oranges and Sunshine about the as a...
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Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys
Mon 28 Mar 2011
A look at Butlins at 75 with Roy Hudd and Martin Parr, an interview with Werner Egan...
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Italy, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, existence
Tue 22 Mar 2011
A panel of guests discuss the state of Italy, as the country marks 150 years of...
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Rattigan, Arab world, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Malloch-Brown
Mon 14 Mar 2011
Trevor Nunn on reviving Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. What does it mean to be an...
