Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Rock Follies
The groundbreaking 1970s TV drama reassessed with guests including actor Rula Lenska.
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Robin Askwith
The actor talks to Matthew Sweet about a childhood affected by polio and his career.
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Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy
This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save...
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Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire
Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current...
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Robert Aickman
For Halloween, Matthew Sweet & guests discuss supernatural fiction, bad teeth & canals
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Rivers, different cultures, different values
Anthropologist, Poet, Archaeologist and Angler reflect on what a river should be
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Rivers and geopolitics
Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity
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Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient...
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Revolutionary free speech
Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.
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Revisit: What does game playing teach us
From a Mesopotamian game to Scrabble, Shahidha Bari discusses competition and gaming.
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Revisit: Tokyo Story
Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life
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Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
The weird world of teenage girls seeking fame, plus the city in fiction and photography.
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Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books Shakespeare would have read.
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Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
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Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter at Hay
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Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken
Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health
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Revisit: Mark Haddon
As it comes out in paperback, Mark Haddon talks to Anne McElvoy about The Porpoise.
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Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk
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Revisit: Arundhati Roy
The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.
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Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species
An author, scientist, architect and explorer compare notes on this polar region.
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Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion
Rana Mitter with the 6 shortlisted historians and an audience at the British Academy
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Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement
Sonia Boyce, Harold Offeh, Isaac Julien and Eddie Chambers talk to Anne McElvoy
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Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about BlacKkKlansman & his 2000 film Bamboozled
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Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
Laurence Scott meets the family of a rediscovered African American writer & 3 historians
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Revisit Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos, Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade
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Revisit Rash艒mon
David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Jasper Sharp & Yuna Tasaka on the film + the book behind it
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Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
Anne McElvoy looks at Napoleon's biography, caricatures and professional impersonators.
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Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting history and politics on film.
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Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving 蜜芽传媒
Psychologist Stephen Briers, student Ceyda Uzun and Durham Univeristy's Caroline Dower
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Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk...
