Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Belief, Habit & Religion
Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history
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Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.
Matthew Sweet in Canterbury and Portsmouth uncovering stories of the lost and the found.
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Being Human: Love Stories
What does who we date and how we date say about us?
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Being Diplomatic
How much emotion should a diplomat, a news reporter or a conciliation expert show?
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Being Blonde
Matthew Sweet discusses the genealogy of blondeness
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Beer, Crisps and the British pub
Tim Martin, Natalie Whittle, Prof Philip Howell, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Ben Wright.
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Bedrooms
How have our bedrooms changed from sleeping space to work space?
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Beastly Politics
Is man the only political beast?
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Back to the '80s
Alexei Sayle and Adam Mars Jones join Matthew Sweet to revisit '80s film, tv and music
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Autism, film and patterns
From Rain Man to Atypical - Matthew Sweet looks at autism on screen and in everyday life
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Authority in the Era of Populism
Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts & Rupert Reid w/ Anne McElvoy
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Australian novelist Peter Carey.
A car race around Australia is fictionalised in Peter Carey's latest novel + Ovid's tales
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Audrey Hepburn
Matthew Sweet marks the 30th anniversary of the death of this icon of film and fashion.
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Asta Nielsen
Matthew Sweet on the life of Danish film star Asta Nielsen, one of cinema's first icons.
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AS Byatt and The Children's Book
AS Byatt discussed her writing life with Matthew Sweet as she published a novel in 2009
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Arundhati Roy, Siddharta Deb and Retromania
Acclaimed novelists Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb look at India as an emerging...
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Artists' models and fame
Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's woman in white, new radio ballads : Shahidha Bari hosts.
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Artistic Endeavours
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Arteries of tomorrow
Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future
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Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
Artist Mat Collishaw, composer Jimmy L贸pez Bellido, academics Vid Simoniti & Sarah Casey
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Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Writing about the Holocaust + the shock of Modernism in 1930s Britain
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Arianna Huffington, Bertrand Tavernier & Hollywood portraiture
Arianna Huffington talks about the launch of her online newspaper, the Huffington in...
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Are we being manipulated?
Who's pulling your strings - Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders
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Are we all American now?
3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter
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Are We Afraid of Being Alone?
Sara Maitland, Lionel Shriver, and John-Henry Clay explore solitude.
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Are the arts saving Margate?
Investigating regeneration and gentrification in the new arts hub.
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Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real
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Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
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Appeasement
How does Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler in 1938 affect politics in 2022?
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Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.
