Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Anxiety
Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist H茅ctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.
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Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden
Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of writers about routines & knowing how to start and stop.
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Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science
Anne Enright discusses a new anthology on Irish short stories, film critic David on of...
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Anne Enright + the value of gossip
Anne Enright discusses acting with Daisy Black, Emily Butterworth and Marie Le Conte.
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Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Politics and friendship and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Anna Kavan
Matthew Sweet reads Ice and other works of this experimental writer who died in 1968
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Anger.
Philip Dodd considers rage in the politics of the US and India
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Ancient wisdom & remote living
From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples & the resilience of island life
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Anarchism and David Graeber
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of American anthropologist (1961-2020).
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An insider's view of war
Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents
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Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction
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Am铆lcar Cabral
Rana Mitter and guests discuss the pan-Africanist poet and anti-colonial leader.
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Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
The Right to Sex is the title of Amia Srinivasan's new book. Christopher Harding hosts.
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American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman plus the careers picked by psychopaths.
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America: Inequality & Race
Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.
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Amanda Foreman, Fintan O'Toole & Alasdair Gray
The Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole talks to Philip Dodd. Amanda Foreman discusses on...
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Alternative Realities
Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life changing experiences & the fourth dimension
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Altered States
Matthew Sweet and guests knock on the doors of perception
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All we need is love
Susie Orbach, Armand D'Angour, Vittoria Fallanca, Mary Harrod and Catherine Wheatley.
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Alison Bechdel
American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel talks mushrooms, therapy and Adrienne Rich
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Alice and Dreaming
Alice is asked in Wonderland, Why is a raven like a writing desk? Salman Rushdie explains
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Alexander the Great
Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tom McCarthy and others join Matthew Sweet to discuss the French 'new novel'
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Ai Weiwei, the value of Arts & All About Love
Isabel Hilton on the artist Ai Weiwei and his recent problems with the Chinese state.
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AI and creativity: what makes us human?
A discussion hosted by Matthew Sweet at the Barbican's exhibition AI More Than Human
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Agoraphobia
More than just a fear of going out - the history & lived experience of a phobia explored.
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After Dark Festival: Equinox
Matthew Sweet looks for meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.
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After Dark Festival: Dark Places
A poet, crime writer, theologian & marine biologist join Matthew Sweet to explore darkness
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Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.
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African identity via China and photography
Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.
