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 - Germany's Power
Wed 4 Jul 2012
With Germany’s economic dominance in Europe increasing, Philip discusses the country...
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Night Waves - Procrastination
Tue 3 Jul 2012
Actor Samuel West speaks to Samira Ahmed about the art of delay, whilst former banker...
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Night Waves - Landmarks: Blackmail
Mon 2 Jul 2012
This Landmark programme is devoted to Hitchcock’s drama Blackmail. Matthew Sweet is...
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Night Waves - Todd Solondz
Thu 28 Jun 2012
Film director Todd Solondz discusses his new suburban satire, Dark Horse.
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Night Waves - Rousseau
Wed 27 Jun 2012
To mark the 300th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's birth and discuss why still...
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Night Waves - Edvard Munch
Tue 26 Jun 2012
With Rana Mitter. Night Waves has a first night review of The Royal Opera's production...
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Night Waves - Jenny Saville
Mon 25 Jun 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to Jenny Saville about her work on display at The Museum of Modern...
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Night Waves - International Review
Thu 21 Jun 2012
For this International Review Edition Matthew Sweet is joined by Moscow based and born...
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Night Waves - Veep
Wed 20 Jun 2012
With Samira Ahmed, Kerry McCarthy (MP for Bristol East) has the verdict on Armando new...
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Night Waves - The Turing Test
Tue 19 Jun 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to the Pulitzer Prize winner, Katherine Boo about her book, Behind...
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Night Waves - Billy Budd
Mon 18 Jun 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Gerard Lemos, the author of The End of the Chinese Dream: why the...
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Night Waves - David Cronenberg
Thu 14 Jun 2012
Anne McElvoy asks Director David Cronenberg if he sees himself as a political or are...
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Night Waves - Europe & Gatz
Wed 13 Jun 2012
Philip Dodd hosts a concert on Europe, with political thinker Slavoj Zizek who has the...
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Night Waves - Harry Belafonte
Tue 12 Jun 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to the singer, actor and civil rights campaigner Harry Belafonte.
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Night Waves Pina Bausch
Mon 11 Jun 2012
Rana Mitter discusses Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch with the actress Fiona Shaw,...
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Night Waves - Robert Caro
Wed 6 Jun 2012
Samira Ahmed talks to the writer Robert Caro about The Passage of Power, the latest of...
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night Waves - Prometheus
Fri 1 Jun 2012
Director Ridley Scott returns to the big screen this week with his new film Prometheus.
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Night Waves - Antigone & Elizabethans
Wed 30 May 2012
Are we living in a second Elizabethan era? Juliet Gardiner, Stephen Haseler, Vernon to...
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Night Waves - John Irving
Tue 29 May 2012
Rana Mitter meets John Irving whose new novel 'In One Person' examines loss of loss of...
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Night Waves - The Angels' Share
Mon 28 May 2012
THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. Matthew Sweet watches Ken Loach's new film...
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Night Waves - David Eagleman
Wed 23 May 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to neuroscientist David Eagleman to discuss the new ethical issues...
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Night Waves - Sicilian Culture
Wed 23 May 2012
As a new book about warring philosophical frenemies Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre...
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Night Waves - Jackie Kay
Tue 22 May 2012
Samira Ahmed talks to Jackie Kay and the former Reith lecturer, Michael Sandel about a...
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Night Waves - John Healy and Marilynne Robinson
Tue 22 May 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist Marilynne the...
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Night Waves-Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Fri 18 May 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to Susannah Clapp about The Sunshine Boys at the Savoy Theatre.
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Night Waves - Photographers' Gallery
Wed 16 May 2012
Samira Ahmed and guests discuss the opening and relaunch of The Photographer's Gallery...
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Night Waves - Taliban Poetry
Tue 15 May 2012
Rana Mitter reads a new collection of poetry from the Taliban in a newly translated to...
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Night Waves - Ideology
Tue 15 May 2012
Matthew Sweet presents Night Waves with a first night review of a new production of in...
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Night Waves-Bring Up the Bodies,56 Up,Babel
Fri 11 May 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to Hilary Mantel about her new historical novel Bring up the to the...
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Night Waves - Andro Linklater
Wed 9 May 2012
Samira Ahmed talks to Andro Linklater whose new book Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die...
