Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo Ep.3
In the last of Matthew Sweet's visits to ZSL London Zoo we consider our relations with...
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Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo
In the first of three special programmes from ZSL London Zoo, Matthew Sweet examines...
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Night Waves - Zaha Hadid, French Cinema Music, Cynicism
Architect Zaha Hadid joins Rana Mitter to reflect on her designs for the Serpentine's...
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Night Waves - Women on stage, Wilkie Collins, A.I.
Actor Diana Quick, playwright Jessica Swale and critic Susannah Clapp join Matthew to...
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Night Waves - What is 'Enough
What is the good life? Philip is joined in the studio by the commentators Robert Owen...
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Night Waves - Weekly highlights: 7
In this edition of weekly highlights, David Benedict reviews the New Year Blockbuster...
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Night Waves - Wagner 200
With Anne McElvoy. It is of course 200 years this week since the birth of the composer...
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Night Waves - Wagner & Nietzsche
The friendship that developed between Wagner and Nietzsche is documented in a vast of...
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Night Waves - Wagner & Myth
In a special edition Samira Ahmed examines the importance of Norse and Greek mythology...
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Night Waves - Vidal Sassoon
In remembrance of Vidal Sassoon, Night Waves podcasts an interview with Philip Dodd on...
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Night Waves - Verdi 200, Dayanita Singh, 2000 years of social media
Social media, as old as Cicero and as revolutionary as Christianity? Tom Standage and...
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Night Waves - Veep
With Samira Ahmed, Kerry McCarthy (MP for Bristol East) has the verdict on Armando new...
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Night Waves - Vali Nasr
Rana Mitter talks to Washington insider Vali Nasr about his new book 'The Dispensable...
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Night Waves - Turner Prize, Candide, Letters
Art critic for The Times Rachel Campbell-Johnston profiles the work of Laure Prouvost,...
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Night Waves - Turner Inspired
Matthew Sweet discusses "Turner Inspired" at the National Gallery in London and Sue of...
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Night Waves - Turkey
Philip Dodd examines A Crisis of Brilliance a new exhibition at London's Dulwich with...
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Night Waves - Transparency
Sam West directing a new revival of Close the Coalhouse Door tells Anne McElvoy why...
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Night Waves - Tony Garnett
Philip Dodd talks to film and television producer Tony Garnett about his career his of...
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Night Waves - Tony Benn, PL Travers, Guy Debord
Veteran politician Tony Benn talks to Matthew Sweet about his final volume of diaries,...
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Night Waves - Tokyo Story
50 years ago this month director Yasujiro Ozu died after making 53 films.
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Night Waves - Todd Solondz
Film director Todd Solondz discusses his new suburban satire, Dark Horse.
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Night Waves - Titian
Titian, who ruled the Venetian art world for over 60 years, is the subject of this of...
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Night Waves - Timbuktu and Beyond
Anne McElvoy discusses the libraries of Timbuktu, and what they teach us about and in...
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Night Waves - Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally joins Anne McElvoy to discuss his new novel The Daughters of Mars, the...
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Night Waves - The Wasp Factory
Philip Dodd goes to the V&A to speak to Hari Kunzru about his new work, and discusses...
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Night Waves - The Turing Test
Anne McElvoy talks to the Pulitzer Prize winner, Katherine Boo about her book, Behind...
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Night Waves - The RSC & Filumena
With Rana Mitter. Susannah Clapp and Michael Billington discuss the appointment of as...
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Night Waves - The Rotten Heart of Europe
With the publication of a new, updated version of The Rotten Heart of Europe, a book...
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Night Waves - The Rolling Stones
For Night Waves Samira Ahmed will be considering the legacy of that most venerable -...
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Night Waves - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Fiona Shaw takes to the stage with Samuel Coleridge’s epic The Rime of the Ancient...
