Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Greed
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Going Underground
Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.
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Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena joins Anne McElvoy
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Goddesses of academia
Nikita Gill, Francesca Wade, Sandeep Parmar & Victoria Leonard talk goddesses & classics
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Goddesses
Christopher Harding explores the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others
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God's Body
Matthew Sweet is joined by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Mark Vernon and Hetta Howes
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Gloves
From python skin to digital worlds, PPE to vegan materials: how gloves are evolving.
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Glitches
Novelist Tom McCarthy joins Matthew Sweet to explore glitches and what they tell us
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Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Matthew Sweet & guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film
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Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
With the death of Glenda Jackson announced here's a conversation she recorded last year
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Ginger Rogers
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Hollywood star's dancing, comic timing and "sass".
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Gifts and Gratitude
Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving
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Ghostwatch
Matthew Sweet on the 1992 TV horror
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Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes
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Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
Breaking the silence: filmmakers, a novelist and historian on the recent Spanish past.
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Ghosts of Caribbean History
New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Mary Evans and Michael Elliott
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Get Carter
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.
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Get Carter
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges
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Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Cooper on the school teacher who tried to ignite a feminist revolution in Germany
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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3...
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George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
One poet and two writers in conversation about language, migrants and personhood
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George Bernard Shaw
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950)
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Gentrification
Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. + artist Lucinda Rogers
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Genes, racism, ageing and evidence
Daniel Levitin on ageing & Adam Rutherford on race and genetics.
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Generations - D-Day - Global Instability
Eliza Filby, Rana Mitter, Jo Hamya, Tom Simpson, plus Gaby Hinsliff
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Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies
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Gangs, the Usual Suspects
Symeon Brown, James Docherty, Alistair Fraser chaired by Matthew Sweet.
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Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing - China's missing film star
Gandhi's power, portable citizenship & Indian writing with Rana Mitter & Amit Chaudhuri.
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Gandhi, Indian Architecture
Rana Mitter looks at a new play at the National Theatre about the man who murdered Gandhi
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Gambling, good leadership and economic history
Anne McElvoy looks at betting, economics and the leadership of US presidents