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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming

    The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared

  2. Churchill's reputation

    Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies

  3. Christopher Logue's War Music

    Shahidha Bari and guests read this version of 蜜芽传媒r's Illiad and look at Logue's language

  4. Chris Patten

    The full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Governor and new chairman of the 蜜芽传媒...

  5. Choice

    Do poets choose their words or are they predetermined?

  6. Chocolate

    Shahidha Bari discusses the confection that has conquered the world

  7. Chocolate

    Shahidha Bari discusses the confection that has conquered the world

  8. China: world politics, ink art & insomnia

    Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA

  9. China, Freud, war and sci fi

    From AI & fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.

  10. Children of the Waters

    Sabina Dosani looks at the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage

  11. Childhood faces and fears

    A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney

  12. Childhood and play

    The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak

  13. Childhood and innocence

    Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper

  14. Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival

    Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers

  15. Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.

    Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.

  16. Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing

  17. Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau

  18. Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.

  19. Charles Jencks

    Landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled the...

  20. Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

    The father of modern computing thought the sea could communicate. Joan Passey explains.

  21. Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters

    Matthew Sweet on charity shops, 'stuff', musical typewriters and the Being Human Festival

  22. Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal

  23. Censorship and sex

    With Naomi Wolf, Sarah Parker and Luis de Miranda.

  24. Celebrating Buchi Emecheta

    Shahidha Bari leads a discussion of Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017).

  25. Celebrating Buchi Emecheta

    Single motherhood, child slavery & parallels w/ Grenfell in the books of Buchi Emecheta

  26. Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali

    Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.

  27. Cary Grant

    Matthew Sweet talks to Pamela Hutchinson, Charlotte Crofts & Mark Glancy.

  28. Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

    Exploring the flow of cultural influences in both directions across the Atlantic.

  29. Cars, Parking and Motorways

    A discussion reflecting on automobiles, AI and the 60th anniversary of the M1 motorway.

  30. Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

    Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

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