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    Power: A User's Guide

    From the Hay Festival, Matthew Sweet discusses the many forms of political power

  2. Power to the People?

    David Runciman, Rod Liddle, Caroline MacFarland Danny Dorling & Anne McElvoy in Gateshead

  3. Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse

    What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?

  4. Post-War Germany

    Forging the modern German nation from the moral and material ruins of WW2

  5. Post Truth & Derrida

    What is Derrida's influence in the 'post-truth' age?

  6. Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.

    Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy

  7. Portraits

    As the NPG re-opens we look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary & oral history

  8. Population Growth

    Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping...

  9. Politician and Pioneer

    Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh

  10. Political Visions

    Anne McElvoy sets off in search of the sunlit uplands

  11. Polari Prize winners

    Pleasure & responsibility in LGBTQ+ art with the Polari Prize & photographer Sunil Gupta

  12. Pogroms and Prejudice

    Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism from Russian history to the present day

  13. Pogroms and prejudice

    Brendan McGeever looks at anti-semitism from Russian attacks to the present day

  14. Poetry and Science: A 19th century metre on the (uni)verse

    Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Greg Tate, Sam Illingworth & Sunayana Bhargava join Anne McElvoy.

  15. Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid

    Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk about their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival

  16. Podcasting difficult histories

    Matthew Sweet discusses difficult histories with 3 BBC podcast hosts at the Hay Festival

  17. Podcast: There Is No I in Team

    MP Johnny Mercer, Theatre Director Elizabeth Newman and former footballer Paul Fletcher.

  18. Pleasure

    Cooking, nature, music, colour - what's your lockdown pleasure?

  19. Playing God

    Patrick Barlow on his play The Messiah, Daisy Black on Stoke's new medieval mystery play

  20. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 8

    Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...

  21. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 7

    During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.

  22. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 6

    Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...

  23. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 4

    The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...

  24. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 3

    Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.

  25. Play Schubert For Me - Episode 2

    Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...

  26. Play Schubert For Me - Episode 1

    The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.

  27. Plastic and Clay

    The extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.

  28. Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books

    Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw

  29. Pirates

    From Treasure Island to Kynance Cove, Anne Bonney to Captain Pugwash: Anne McElvoy hosts

  30. Piranesi and disturbing archecture

    Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of Matthew Sweet's guests

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