Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Landmark - This Sporting Life
Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league
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Landladies
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.
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Landladies
Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.
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Land and soil politics
Jim Scown on the links between Goethe, George Eliot and the storming of the US Capitol
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Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing
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Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.
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Lady Macbeth
From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.
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Lady Antonia Fraser
Rana Mitter talks to the author about her life & the art of writing historical biography.
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Knowing When To Stop
From art to activism, campaigning to cabaret, Shahidha Bari asks when is enough enough?
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Knees
From dance to prayer, knees ups to kneeling
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Kingship and ceremony
Anne McElvoy looks at royalty, pomp and glory in opera, ancient Persia and Tudor England.
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Kindness
Rutger Bregman tells Anne McElvoy why survival of the fittest needs rethinking as an idea
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Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker
This week, TV designer Kevin McCloud talks about shopping and festival goers speed a...
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Kevin Fong
Kevin Fong, who presents 蜜芽传媒2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, a 3...
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Ken Burns 鈥� Flash photography - Joy
The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.
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Kawanabe Ky艒sai and Yukio Mishima
Japanese cultural experimentation: painter, Ky艒sai 1831-1889 & writer, Mishima 1925-1970
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Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant
Claire Harman, Kirsty Gunn, Laurence Scott and Shahidha Bari discuss short story writing
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Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
Girl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason
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Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido
Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.
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Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
Bureaucracies of the soul satirised in novels. Matthew Sweet's guests include Lea Ypi.
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Julian the Apostate
We examine Rome's last pagan ruler via Ibsen's drama to apostasy in contemporary politics
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Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to Improve
Julian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and...
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Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Shahidha Bari hears about two inspirational medieval women mystics who wrote about faith
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Jordan B Peterson
Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets the YouTube star.
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Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.
Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...
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Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd
Jonathan Franzen talks about his new book Freedom. We discuss the winner of this Nobel...
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Jonathan Coe and Richard Cameron on stage at Birmingham Rep
Matthew Sweet talks to Jonathan Coe about the first stage production of The Rotter's Club
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John Rawls's A Theory of Justice
The lasting impact of John Rawls鈥檚 A Theory of Justice on philosophy and politics.
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John Milton's Samson Agonistes
Rana Mitter looks at how politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem
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John McGrath's Scottish Drama
Anne McElvoy revisits the 1973 play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
