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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas

    The man who loved our trees and woods and new ideas of what they were and might become

  2. Oliver Postgate

    Matthew Sweet & Daniel Postgate, musicians Sandra Kerr & Neil Brand, critic Samira Ahmed

  3. Oliver Postgate

    Matthew Sweet and guests on the creator of children's TV classics including The Clangers.

  4. Odessa Stories

    Matthew Sweet explores the work of Soviet Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel

  5. Octavia Butler's Kindred

    A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma

  6. Octavia Butler's Kindred

    A novel from 1979 that uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma

  7. Oceans, art and pacific poetry

    From coral reef sculptures to creation sagas of Australia and attitudes to land and sea.

  8. Oceans and the Sea

    Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival

  9. Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?

    Was Nero really a victim of plots? Bulgaria's hidden past. Plus a novel about startups.

  10. Notebooks and new technology

    Authors Jonathan Coe, Roland Allen, Lesley Smith and art book maker Gill Partington

  11. Not Quite Jean Muir

    How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills?

  12. Not Quite Jean Muir

    How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills

  13. Northern Ireland

    Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers

  14. Nightwaves

    Anne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book a...

  15. Night Waves: The Pursuit Of Happiness

    Anne McElvoy examines whether we place too much weight on happiness as a measure of of...

  16. Night Waves: The English and Christianity, Four Horsemen, Miro Exhibition, Antarctica

    Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Anne McElvoy about why he believes that Christianity the...

  17. Night Waves: Miss Fortune, Jerry White, Lloyd Newson, Museum Narration

    Samira Ahmed is joined by Helen Wallace to review the UK premiere of composer Judith...

  18. Night Waves: Margaret Thatcher

    Since her death on the 8th April, Baroness Thatcher has been lauded as the greatest of...

  19. Night Waves: Going Dark, Disaster, Russell Banks, Bel Ami

    Susannah Clapp reviews a new play Going Dark running at the Young Vic Theatre.

  20. Night Waves: Eve Arnold, Khodorkovsky, Beauty in Evolution, Raspberry Pi

    Anne McElvoy talks to Eamon McCabe about the late photographer Eve Arnold, the German...

  21. Night Waves: Eli Zaretsky

    Philip Dodd with an interview with cultural historian, Eli Zaretsky on his new book, a...

  22. Night Waves-Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    Anne McElvoy talks to Susannah Clapp about The Sunshine Boys at the Savoy Theatre.

  23. Night Waves-International Review

    Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme, with critics...

  24. Night Waves-Bring Up the Bodies,56 Up,Babel

    Anne McElvoy talks to Hilary Mantel about her new historical novel Bring up the to the...

  25. Night Waves Ron Muek 18th April

    We review the latest exhibition of a modern Frankenstein – one of the descriptions a...

  26. Night Waves Pina Bausch

    Rana Mitter discusses Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch with the actress Fiona Shaw,...

  27. Night Waves 8th May

    Victorian women cast a long shadow over our imaginations But do we do enough to the of...

  28. night Waves 30th April

    Matthew Sweet presents a review of The English National Opera's The Flying Dutchman.

  29. Night Waves 16th April

    Matthew Sweet is joined by Nick Harkaway and Naomi Alderman to consider our changing...

  30. Night Waves – William Dalrymple

    Anne McElvoy talks to William Dalrymple about his new book Return of A King - an of in...

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