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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Free Thinking 2012 - Lee Hall
Thu 8 Nov 2012
An audience with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, recorded at...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Emma Griffin
Thu 8 Nov 2012
Emma Griffin, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on what makes a 3...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Jonathan Healey
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Jonathan Healey, one of Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk questioning...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Islam and Christianity
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Theologian Mona Siddiqui and historian Tom Holland join Radio 3’s Free Thinking to...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Social Mobility
Tue 6 Nov 2012
Is Social Mobility Overrated? Anne McElvoy chairs a debate from the Radio 3 Free this...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Adriana Sinclair
Tue 6 Nov 2012
Adriana Sinclair, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the exert...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Charlotte Blease
Mon 5 Nov 2012
Charlotte Blease, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk that the and...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Michael Ignatieff
Mon 5 Nov 2012
On the eve of the US election, Michael Ignatieff gives a talk at Radio 3's Free on in...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Mary Robinson
Fri 2 Nov 2012
Mary Robinson delivers the opening lecture of the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...
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Night Waves - Frank Auerbach
Thu 1 Nov 2012
Rana Mitter discusses two new shows of the painter, Frank Auerbach's work with the and...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Jean Brodie
Wed 31 Oct 2012
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition examining Muriel Spark's 1961 novel The Prime...
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Night Waves - Ken Dodd
Tue 30 Oct 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to the comedian Ken Dodd about his life and career.
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Night Waves - Phil Redmond
Mon 29 Oct 2012
Phil Redmond, the creator of ground-breaking series such as Grange Hill, Brookside and...
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Night Waves - Thomas Keneally
Thu 25 Oct 2012
Thomas Keneally joins Anne McElvoy to discuss his new novel The Daughters of Mars, the...
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Night Waves - Wagner & Myth
Wed 24 Oct 2012
In a special edition Samira Ahmed examines the importance of Norse and Greek mythology...
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Night Waves - Jo Nesbo
Tue 23 Oct 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Playwright Howard Brenton discussing his new play, 55 days, on...
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Night Waves - Syrian Art
Mon 22 Oct 2012
Malu Halasa, curator of the Culture in Defiance exhibition in Amsterdam, joins Matthew...
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Night Waves - Wagner & Nietzsche
Thu 18 Oct 2012
The friendship that developed between Wagner and Nietzsche is documented in a vast of...
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Night Waves - Hanna Rosin
Wed 17 Oct 2012
Philip Dodd discusses The End of Men: And the Rise of Women with author Hanna Rosin.
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Night Waves - Michael Chabon
Mon 15 Oct 2012
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon joins Matthew Sweet to discuss his new...
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Night Waves - Anish Kapoor
Thu 11 Oct 2012
Sculptor Anish Kapoor joins Samira Ahmed to discuss his new exhibition at London's...
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Night Waves - Kofi Annan
Wed 10 Oct 2012
Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Secretary General, is Philip guest...
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Night Waves - International Review
Tue 9 Oct 2012
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme, with critics...
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Night Waves - Paul Auster
Mon 8 Oct 2012
Novelist and film director Paul Auster joins Anne McElvoy to discuss his new memoir,...
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Night Waves - Don Paterson
Wed 3 Oct 2012
Scottish poet and musician Don Paterson joins Philip Dodd for an extended conversation.
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Night Waves - Open Access
Tue 2 Oct 2012
Education minister David Willetts and research chief Dame Janet Finch are in the to of...
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Night Waves - Eric Hobsbawm
Mon 1 Oct 2012
Following the death of the celebrated – and controversial – Marxist historian Eric...
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Night Waves - Jack Straw
Thu 27 Sep 2012
Jack Straw joins Anne McElvoy for a candid interview in which the former Labour the of...
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Night Waves - Mars
Wed 26 Sep 2012
As NASA’s rover Curiosity conducts its mission on Mars, Samira Ahmed presents a on...
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Night Waves - Louvre Islamic Wing
Tue 25 Sep 2012
Matthew Sweet examines the newly opened Islamic art wing at the Paris Louvre with Karl...
