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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Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet
Mon 13 Dec 2010
Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's -...
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Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science
Tue 7 Dec 2010
Anne Enright discusses a new anthology on Irish short stories, film critic David on of...
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Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd
Wed 1 Dec 2010
Lord Ian Blair talks about violence and human behaviour; Pat Barker discusses her War...
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Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker
Tue 23 Nov 2010
This week, TV designer Kevin McCloud talks about shopping and festival goers speed a...
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Free Thinking
Thu 18 Nov 2010
This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
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Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Mon 8 Nov 2010
Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient...
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Amanda Foreman, Fintan O'Toole & Alasdair Gray
Mon 1 Nov 2010
The Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole talks to Philip Dodd. Amanda Foreman discusses on...
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Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft
Mon 25 Oct 2010
Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip to...
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Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson
Mon 18 Oct 2010
Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes of...
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Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd
Tue 12 Oct 2010
Jonathan Franzen talks about his new book Freedom. We discuss the winner of this Nobel...
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Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English
Tue 5 Oct 2010
In the 200th year of Mrs Gaskell's birth, Jenny Uglow and Katheryn Hughes discuss her...
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Progression, Diaghilev & John Pawson
Fri 1 Oct 2010
The use of the word 'Progression' in politics is discussed with Peter Hitchens, Kitty...
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Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George
Mon 20 Sep 2010
Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of...
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Proms Literary Festival
Fri 10 Sep 2010
Ian McMillan discusses the story of Hansel and Gretal and its continuing relevance to...
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Proms Literary Festival
Fri 3 Sep 2010
A celebration of Schiller's Ode to Joy sung by Billy Bragg. Exploring the genius of...
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Landmarks: Solaris
Thu 2 Feb 2006
A celebration of one of the great landmarks of culture as Matthew Sweet talks to the...
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Landmarks: Alien
Thu 8 Jan 2004
Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien and whether it's blend of...
