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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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...
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Niall Ferguson, Joanna Hogg & Tom Hiddleston
Mon 7 Mar 2011
Niall Ferguson talks about his new series, Civilisation and the importance of 'killer...
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Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade
Mon 28 Feb 2011
Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the of and...
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07 Feb: David Chipperfield & Colin Thubron
Mon 7 Feb 2011
Travel writer Colin Thubron talks about his journey of discovery through Tibet.
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Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller
Mon 31 Jan 2011
We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German and...
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Night Waves
Mon 31 Jan 2011
We ask does the West really understand India? Director Peter Kosminsky discusses his...
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Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley
Mon 24 Jan 2011
We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 in...
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Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self
Thu 30 Dec 2010
Directors Danny Boyle and Nev Schulman on their latest films; psychotherapist Susie on...
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Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech
Tue 21 Dec 2010
Director Peter Weir talks about his new film, The Way Back. Chess grandmaster, Garry...
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Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet
Mon 13 Dec 2010
Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's -...
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Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science
Tue 7 Dec 2010
Anne Enright discusses a new anthology on Irish short stories, film critic David on of...
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Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd
Wed 1 Dec 2010
Lord Ian Blair talks about violence and human behaviour; Pat Barker discusses her War...
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Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker
Tue 23 Nov 2010
This week, TV designer Kevin McCloud talks about shopping and festival goers speed a...
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Free Thinking
Thu 18 Nov 2010
This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
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Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Mon 8 Nov 2010
Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient...
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Amanda Foreman, Fintan O'Toole & Alasdair Gray
Mon 1 Nov 2010
The Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole talks to Philip Dodd. Amanda Foreman discusses on...
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Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft
Mon 25 Oct 2010
Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip to...
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Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson
Mon 18 Oct 2010
Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes of...
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Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd
Tue 12 Oct 2010
Jonathan Franzen talks about his new book Freedom. We discuss the winner of this Nobel...
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Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English
Tue 5 Oct 2010
In the 200th year of Mrs Gaskell's birth, Jenny Uglow and Katheryn Hughes discuss her...
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Progression, Diaghilev & John Pawson
Fri 1 Oct 2010
The use of the word 'Progression' in politics is discussed with Peter Hitchens, Kitty...
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Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George
Mon 20 Sep 2010
Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of...
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Proms Literary Festival
Fri 10 Sep 2010
Ian McMillan discusses the story of Hansel and Gretal and its continuing relevance to...
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Proms Literary Festival
Fri 3 Sep 2010
A celebration of Schiller's Ode to Joy sung by Billy Bragg. Exploring the genius of...
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Landmarks: Solaris
Thu 2 Feb 2006
A celebration of one of the great landmarks of culture as Matthew Sweet talks to the...
