Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Libraries
From Alexandria to Mid Wales, Laurence Scott and guests look at library history.
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
Confronting the man who jilted you is the plot of this 1960s Argentine expressionist film
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Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?
Margaret MacMillan, David Aaronovitch, Phillip Blond and Gisela Stuart join Matthew Sweet
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Learning from Sweden
From IKEA to Bergman and ABBA - Matthew Sweet looks at Sweden's impact on Britain.
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Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
A philosopher of love and a philosopher in love
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Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
POTUS, crisis management and ambition - Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to Anne McElvoy
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Leadership & authority
From Tudor courts to plantations to the Arab Spring: a Bristol Festival of Ideas Debate.
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Lawrence Durrell, Kate Grenville, Cullen Murphy, Gene Sharp
Philip Dodd talks to Cullen Murphy about his new book, God's Jury. Matthew Sweet takes...
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Late works
Dame Sheila Hancock , viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer discuss endings
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Late works
Geoff Dyer and Dame Sheila Hancock discuss endings and lateness with Matthew Sweet.
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Lars von Trier Special
In this special edition of the podcast, Matthew Sweet's full interview with the Danish...
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Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft
Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip to...
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Language
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the way language unites and divides us
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Landmarks: Solaris
A celebration of one of the great landmarks of culture as Matthew Sweet talks to the...
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Landmarks: Alien
Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien and whether it's blend of...
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Landmark: Watership Down
An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.
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Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.
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Landmark: The Odyssey
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd
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Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser on Susan Sontag's 1966 essay collection.
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Landmark: Rash艒mon
David Peace & Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
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Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement
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Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie
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Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night
Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey , Tibor Fischer& Damian Catani on C茅line's masterpiece
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Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Matthew Sweet discusses Iris Murdoch's philosophical essay of 1970
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Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.
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Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James Joyce's experimental novel.
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Landmark: Audre Lorde
Jackie Kay & Selina Thompson discuss the influential US writer & civil rights activist
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Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.
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Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Matthew Sweet talks Jaws with shark expert Gareth Fraser and novelist Will Self.
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Landmark 鈥� Man with a Movie Camera
Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov
