Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Marlene Dietrich
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich from Europe to Hollywood.
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Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.
Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs to rethink + Gulzaar Barn on medical trials
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Marilynne Robinson
The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter
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Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The Scottish writers whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th century conventions
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Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions
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Margaret Drabble, Emma Rothschild ,Stanley Spencer exhibition and Authenticity and the In
Nightwaves looks at the subject of internet anonymity, visits a new exhibition of work...
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Margaret Cavendish
Nandini Das and guests discuss the Duchess of Newcastle - philosopher, poet and scientist
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Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
Sarah Goldsmith explores the C18th aristocratic craze for pumping iron
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Many faces of Eve?
Catherine Fletcher with Stephen Greenblatt, Islam Issa, Jennifer Evans and Sara Read.
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Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking
Timandra Harkness, Ekow Eshun, Sophie Grace Chappell, Richard Bett and Stephen Bush
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Malcolm X, Diana Athill and Ai Wei Wei
An overview of the legacy of Malcolm X, Diana Athill on her short stories, a new film...
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Making Your Voice Heard
Shahidha Bari is joined by Dina Nayeri, Kirsty Sedgman, Michelle Assay and Alberta Whittle
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Magic
Matthew Sweet and guests conjure a conversation about the importance and appeal of magic
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Macbeth and Things Fall Apart
Jo Nesb酶 and Mark Ravenhill on the Scottish Play; Chinua Achebe's novel about leadership.
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Luck, predictability and superstition
Dr Christian Busch, Bobby Seagull, Sharron Davies, Dr Kate Tomas and Timandra Harkness.
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Love
Andrew McMillan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Elanor Dymott, Laura Mucha- the science & art of love.
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Lost Words and Language
Shahidha Bari looks at research showcased in the Being Human Festival at UK universities
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Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
Anne McElvoy explores the past and present of the transcontinental nation of Egypt
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Loss, Grief and Anger
Lisa Appignanesi; Heather O'Neill; Cherie Dimaline; Pacific Arts Adviser, Jo Walsh
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Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd
Lord Ian Blair talks about violence and human behaviour; Pat Barker discusses her War...
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Lorca
As the National Theatre stages The House of Bernarda Alba, Rana Mitter discusses Lorca
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Liverpool Biennial + art at MIF
Catherine Fletcher and 3 Biennial artists. Vid Simoniti visits Economics the Blockbuster
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Lists
Are lists a good way of organising chaos? Lisa Mullen and guests discuss
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd
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Links between Judaism and Christianity
Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots
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Linda Grant and Jewish history
Julia Pascal, Rachel Lichtenstein, Linda Grant and curator Alex Cropper + John Gallagher
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Linda Colley
Leading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how we have dealt with periods of in us...
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Light Fantastic, Raymond Tallis, Libya, New Generation Thinker
Highlights from a Night Waves special as part of the Light Fantastic Festival weekend.
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Life, art and drama in the kitchen
Sarah Kent, Marianne Hem Eriksen, Melanie Williams and Angela Hui join Matthew Sweet
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Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest
Matthew Sweet with David Willetts, Elizabeth Oldfield, Will Davies, Tiffany Watt Smith
