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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R3 Arts: Night Waves: Nadine Gordimer
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Nadine Gordimer.
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Night Waves - Tarkovsky
Wed 21 Mar 2012
Philip Dodd and Susan Hitch review the world premier of Jonathan Dove's opera, Life is...
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Night Waves: The English and Christianity, Four Horsemen, Miro Exhibition, Antarctica
Fri 16 Mar 2012
Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Anne McElvoy about why he believes that Christianity the...
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Night Waves: Eli Zaretsky
Fri 16 Mar 2012
Philip Dodd with an interview with cultural historian, Eli Zaretsky on his new book, a...
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Night Waves - Opium & TV Dramas
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet on 'Opium: Reality's Dark Dream. ' Corruption and pain relief, war and in...
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Night Waves: Miss Fortune, Jerry White, Lloyd Newson, Museum Narration
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Samira Ahmed is joined by Helen Wallace to review the UK premiere of composer Judith...
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Night Waves - Turner Inspired
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet discusses "Turner Inspired" at the National Gallery in London and Sue of...
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Night Waves: Going Dark, Disaster, Russell Banks, Bel Ami
Mon 12 Mar 2012
Susannah Clapp reviews a new play Going Dark running at the Young Vic Theatre.
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Night Waves: Eve Arnold, Khodorkovsky, Beauty in Evolution, Raspberry Pi
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Anne McElvoy talks to Eamon McCabe about the late photographer Eve Arnold, the German...
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Night Waves - James Robinson, Peter Gill, Claude Lanzmann
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet meets James Robinson who offers a new way of understanding wealth and...
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Night Waves - Landmarks: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Thu 8 Mar 2012
As we approach the centenary of Bram Stoker's death, Philip Dodd presents a Landmark...
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Night Waves - Paul Preston, The Stuff That Really Matters, Mark Pagel, Chung Kuo China
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Rana Mitter meets Paul Preston, whose new account of the Spanish Civil War is called -...
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Night Waves - The Future of Science, Financial Fiction, Alghieri Boetti & Atomic Time
Thu 1 Mar 2012
The historian Jon Agar and the science writer, Marcus Chown consider the achievements...
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Night Waves - Richard Holloway, Jonathan Safran Foer and Howard Jacobson
Wed 29 Feb 2012
Philip Dodd explores the boundaries between faith and doubt. His expert guides in this...
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Moby Duck, The Art of Peace, Appointment with the Wicker Man
Thu 23 Feb 2012
With Rana Mitter. Donovan Hohn talks about tracking 28,000 yellow plastic ducks lost...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore, A Small Circus, Jeremy Deller, Carbon Democracy
Wed 22 Feb 2012
With Anne McElvoy. Paul Allen reviews 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore. Translator Michael...
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Free Love, Catholicism, Roger Corman, Red Dog
Tue 21 Feb 2012
With Matthew Sweet. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner and the author Lisa Appignanesi...
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Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi
Fri 17 Feb 2012
With Anne McElvoy. We discuss the fraught relationship between religion and politics.
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Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons
Thu 16 Feb 2012
With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...
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Elif Safak at Free Thinking Festival
Wed 15 Feb 2012
The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter in an interview recorded at last...
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Picasso, Baka Doc, Speed-Dating, Josie Rourke
Tue 14 Feb 2012
With Matthew Sweet. Artist Brad Lochore reviews a new exhibition at Tate Britain: and...
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Lawrence Durrell, Kate Grenville, Cullen Murphy, Gene Sharp
Tue 7 Feb 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Cullen Murphy about his new book, God's Jury. Matthew Sweet takes...
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The Trial of Ubu, David Scheffer & The Hajj
Wed 1 Feb 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to David Scheffer, architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunal and...
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Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics
Wed 25 Jan 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also...
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Artistic Endeavours
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Scientific Breakthroughs
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Greed
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Population Growth
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...
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Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens
Mon 19 Dec 2011
In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...
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Is Politics Dead?
Mon 12 Dec 2011
As Europe struggles to manage the current financial crisis we are seeing un-elected...
