Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Discrimination
The lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Shahidha Bari to discuss how British justice fails women.
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Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.
Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.
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Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
Sir Nigel Sheinwald,Clare Jackson, Holly Furneaux and Bronwen Maddox discuss diplomacy
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Digging Deep
Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking
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Digging Deep
Susan Greaney asks whether Neolithic attitudes to the earth could shape our thinking.
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Dictators
Matthew Sweet on Chaplin's 1941 film and rising populism today.
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Dickens, Disney and copyright
Matthew Sweet looks at copyright rules for Mickey Mouse & Dickens in C19th America
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Dickens
Mathew Sweet, Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead 150 years since Dickens' death
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Diaries
Michael Crick, Irving Finkel, Sophie Coulombeau and Oliver Burkeman join Matthew Sweet
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Designing the future
Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.
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Design
Including a report from the London Design Biennale and film historian Peter Biskind.
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Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience
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Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet recorded with an audience
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Democracy, Hong Kong and USA
Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong & USA. Is confrontational politics is here to stay?
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Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Matthew Sweet re-reads a classic of French postmodern theory
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Deep Time and the Earth
Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.
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Decision Making
From think tanks & tallies to tarot, what tools do we use to help us choose our actions?
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Decadent Art
New research into ideas about decadence and connections with France, England and Iran.
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Decadence
Matthew Sweet assesses the state of contemporary culture
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Debt
As Budget day approaches, Anne McElvoy looks at debt from the South Sea Bubble to Sunak
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Death rituals
From death cafes to bronze age burials, C19th mourning rings to the way doctors cope.
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Death Comes to Us All
Richard Holloway, Kathryn Mannix and Kevin Toolis debate the end of life with Philip Dodd
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Davos Discussions. Shobana Jeyasingh. New Generation Thinker Se谩n Williams
Anne McElvoy explores topics discussed at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum
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David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
Two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world
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David Bailey, Don McCullin
Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.
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David Bailey, Don McCullin
Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.
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David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art
David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet.
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Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)
Matthew Sweet and guests assess Darwin's arguments about the human species, sex, and race
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Dark Places
A poet, crime writer, theologian, marine biologist and Matthew Sweet explore darkness
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Dante's visions
Art historian Martin Kemp, painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website
