Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Historians Kathryn Hughes & Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment.
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Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.
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Prom Plus Literary 鈥� Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen is one of the greatest First World War writers. The poets Fred d'Aguiar...
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Prom Plus Literary - Philip Larkin
Poets Andrew Motion and Kate Clanchy discuss the writing of Philip Larkin and his was...
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Prom Plus Literary - Iceland
As the Iceland Symphony Orchestra appear at the Proms, Radio 3's New Generation and in...
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Progression, Diaghilev & John Pawson
The use of the word 'Progression' in politics is discussed with Peter Hitchens, Kitty...
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Prize Winners 2023
Nandini Das, Tania Branigan, Halik Kochanski, Ed Yong, John Vallaint talk to Rana Mitter
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Private Eye,Grief,Imran Khan,Thomas Friedman
Anne McElvoy talks to Adam Macqueen as Private Eye turns 50. Matthew Sweet discusses -...
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Prison Break
New Generation Thinker Jeffery Howard asks if it is ever ok to escape from prison
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Prison Break
New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks is it ever ok to escape from prison?
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Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
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Power: A User's Guide
From the Hay Festival, Matthew Sweet discusses the many forms of political power
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Power to the People?
David Runciman, Rod Liddle, Caroline MacFarland Danny Dorling & Anne McElvoy in Gateshead
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Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?
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Post-War Germany
Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of WW2
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Post Truth & Derrida
What is Derrida's influence in the 'post-truth' age?
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Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.
Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy
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Portraits
As the NPG re-opens we look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary & oral history
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Population Growth
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Politician and Pioneer
Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
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Political Visions
Anne McElvoy sets off in search of the sunlit uplands
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Polari Prize winners
Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta
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Pogroms and Prejudice
Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism from Russian history to the present day
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Pogroms and prejudice
Brendan McGeever looks at anti-semitism from Russian attacks to the present day
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Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Greg Tate, Sam Illingworth & Sunayana Bhargava join Anne McElvoy.
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Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid
Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk about their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival
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Podcasting difficult histories
Matthew Sweet discusses difficult histories with 3 蜜芽传媒 podcast hosts at the Hay Festival
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Podcast: There Is No I in Team
MP Johnny Mercer, Theatre Director Elizabeth Newman and former footballer Paul Fletcher.
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Pleasure
Cooking, nature, music, colour - what's your lockdown pleasure?
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Playing God
Patrick Barlow on his play The Messiah, Daisy Black on Stoke's new medieval mystery play
