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 8th May
Tue 8 May 2012
Victorian women cast a long shadow over our imaginations But do we do enough to the of...
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Night Waves - Portraits Day
Mon 7 May 2012
In a special edition from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Philip Dodd is by at...
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Night Waves - Landmark: The Tempest
Thu 3 May 2012
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest, a drama...
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Night Waves - Bauhaus
Wed 2 May 2012
Rana Mitter presents with a review of the new Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican and a...
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Night Waves - Leonardo da Vinci
Tue 1 May 2012
In this edition of Night Waves with Anne McElvoy, cardiac surgeon Francis Wells takes...
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night Waves 30th April
Mon 30 Apr 2012
Matthew Sweet presents a review of The English National Opera's The Flying Dutchman.
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Night Waves - Imagination
Wed 25 Apr 2012
Philip Dodd talks to the writer Jonah Lehrer whose new book sets out to unravel and...
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Night Waves - The Rolling Stones
Tue 24 Apr 2012
For Night Waves Samira Ahmed will be considering the legacy of that most venerable -...
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Night Waves - Live Forever
Mon 23 Apr 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to David Hare. His new play South Downs is paired with a new of at...
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Night Waves - Gold
Thu 19 Apr 2012
The price of gold is on a high. Rana Mitter examines its incredible allure and asks if...
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Night Waves Ron Muek 18th April
Wed 18 Apr 2012
We review the latest exhibition of a modern Frankenstein – one of the descriptions a...
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Night Waves - Transparency
Tue 17 Apr 2012
Sam West directing a new revival of Close the Coalhouse Door tells Anne McElvoy why...
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Night Waves 16th April
Mon 16 Apr 2012
Matthew Sweet is joined by Nick Harkaway and Naomi Alderman to consider our changing...
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Night Waves - Feminism
Thu 12 Apr 2012
Anne McElvoy and guests with a special programme on feminism: writing, philosophy and...
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Night Waves - Mozart's Sister
Wed 11 Apr 2012
Liberals want gentle dogs, and conservatives want obedient ones argues social and in...
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Night Waves - British Landscape
Tue 10 Apr 2012
How should we appreciate the land around us? Tonight's Night Waves is devoted to a on...
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Night Waves - Luxury
Mon 9 Apr 2012
Philip Dodd explores our passion for luxury in an age of austerity. Is it a sin or the...
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Night Waves - La Grande Illusion
Thu 5 Apr 2012
Anne McElvoy presents a landmark edition on the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion.
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Night Waves - Sculptured Carving
Wed 4 Apr 2012
Philip Dodd goes to Kew Gardens in London to watch David Nash carving sculpture from...
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Night Waves-International Review
Tue 3 Apr 2012
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme, with critics...
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Night Waves Peter Carey, Museums, Daniel Everett
Tue 3 Apr 2012
Rana Mitter talks to the Australian writer Peter Carey about his new novel The of...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 8
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...
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R3Arts: Play Schubert for Me - Episode 5
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 7
Fri 30 Mar 2012
During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 6
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 4
Wed 28 Mar 2012
The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 3
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.
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Play Schubert For Me - Episode 2
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...
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Play Schubert For Me - Episode 1
Mon 26 Mar 2012
The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.
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Night Waves - The RSC & Filumena
Thu 22 Mar 2012
With Rana Mitter. Susannah Clapp and Michael Billington discuss the appointment of as...
