Arts & Ideas Podcast
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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Night Waves - The Girl
Tue 18 Dec 2012
Matthew Sweet discusses The Girl, a new film about Alfred Hitchcock’s vexed with the...
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Night Waves - Ang Lee & Angels
Mon 17 Dec 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to the director Ang Lee about his latest film The Life of Pi.
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Free Thinking 2012 - Lindsay Johns
Thu 13 Dec 2012
Columnist and youth worker Lindsay Johns argues that we should stop listening to the a...
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Night Waves - The Nation State
Wed 12 Dec 2012
How relevant is the Nation-State in today's world? Philip Dodd debates the future of...
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Night Waves - International Review
Tue 11 Dec 2012
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme and is joined...
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Night Waves - English landscape painting
Mon 10 Dec 2012
Constable, Gainsborough and Turner, the three towering figures of English landscape in...
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Night Waves - Stanislavski
Mon 10 Dec 2012
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the life and work of the Russian director Konstantin...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Colm Tóibín
Thu 6 Dec 2012
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers, whose books explore issues such as and...
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Night Waves - Artificial Intelligence
Wed 5 Dec 2012
Matthew Sweet speaks to acclaimed director Michael Grandage whose theatre company with...
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Night Waves - Julius Caesar
Tue 4 Dec 2012
Samira Ahmed hosts a discussion about cross casting with Fiona Shaw and Carol Rutter a...
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Night Waves - Napoleon, Turner Prize, Georgia
Mon 3 Dec 2012
As Radio 3 marks the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s historic retreat from Anne...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Ian Goldin
Thu 29 Nov 2012
Economist Ian Goldin gives a talk on Globalisation and the Future at Radio 3's Free...
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Night Waves - Napoleon Rising
Wed 28 Nov 2012
Critic Kevin Jackson and Andrew Biswell join Samira Ahmed to review Napoleon Rising, a...
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Night Waves - Antony Gormley
Tue 27 Nov 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to Antony Gormley about his gigantic new sculpture Model.
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Night Waves - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mon 26 Nov 2012
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the banker-turned-philosopher who predicted the 2008 financial...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Revolution and Democracy
Thu 22 Nov 2012
What kind of societies will the Arab Spring give birth to? Democratic, Capitalist, or...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Aliens
Wed 21 Nov 2012
Matthew Sweet debates how the discovery of alien life might change the way we think it...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Julie Bindel
Tue 20 Nov 2012
Julie Bindel gives a talk arguing that sexuality is a choice at the Radio 3 Free...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Hell is Other People
Mon 19 Nov 2012
As our global population increases and technology encourages instant communication, we...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Mark Pagel
Fri 16 Nov 2012
Why have humans evolved to speak so many incomprehensible languages? Why do we work by...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Matthew Smith
Fri 16 Nov 2012
Matthew Smith, one of Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers, explores why the simple has...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Sue-Ann Harding
Thu 15 Nov 2012
Sue-Ann Harding, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk in which she...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Immigration and the Challenge to Belonging
Thu 15 Nov 2012
What does it mean to belong? Multiculturalism, integration and social division are of...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Joshua Nall
Wed 14 Nov 2012
Joshua Nall, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the Victorian 3...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Vicky Featherstone
Wed 14 Nov 2012
As Scotland heads towards a referendum on independence, Vicky Featherstone discusses a...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Nandini Das
Tue 13 Nov 2012
Nandini Das, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the 16th craze...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Rewriting World History
Tue 13 Nov 2012
Does World History still mean Western History, or do we need a radical new of the To...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Amos Oz
Mon 12 Nov 2012
Amos Oz, one of Israel's most influential thinkers, gives a talk on the Middle East of...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Martin Goodman
Mon 12 Nov 2012
Martin Goodman, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the perils...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Timothy Secret
Fri 9 Nov 2012
Timothy Secret, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers , gives a talk during Free we...
