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  1. Night Waves - The Profumo Affair

    Matthew Sweet picks over the bones of the Profumo affair with the historian Richard of...

  2. Night Waves - The Octoroon

    Matthew Sweet is on stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East for a post-performance 5...

  3. Night Waves - The New Common Reader

    Matthew Sweet is leading an elite party of literary explorers - Linda Grant, Aminatta...

  4. Night Waves - The Nation State

    How relevant is the Nation-State in today's world? Philip Dodd debates the future of...

  5. Night Waves - The Innocents

    A Landmark edition recorded in front of an audience at the British Film Institute as...

  6. Night Waves - The Hot House

    Anne McElvoy applies herself to the crisis of modern banking, the plight of buildings...

  7. Night Waves - The Great Gatsby

    With Samira Ahmed. Sarah Churchwell and Kevin Jackson discuss the Great Gatsby as a by...

  8. Night Waves - The Girl

    Matthew Sweet discusses The Girl, a new film about Alfred Hitchcock’s vexed with the...

  9. Night Waves - The Future of Science, Financial Fiction, Alghieri Boetti & Atomic Time

    The historian Jon Agar and the science writer, Marcus Chown consider the achievements...

  10. Night Waves - The Early 1960s

    As Andrew Lloyd Webber prepares to open his new musical about Profumo and Stephen 1963...

  11. Night Waves - The Common Reader

    Matthew Sweet leads an elite party of literary explorers - Linda Grant, Aminatta Naomi...

  12. Night Waves - The Clash of Civilisations?, George Grosz, Simon Heffer

    Samuel Huntington’s essay ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’ was published twenty and...

  13. Night Waves - The Angels' Share

    THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. Matthew Sweet watches Ken Loach's new film...

  14. Night Waves - The Amen Corner

    A first night review of the National Theatre's revival of James Baldwin's drama The...

  15. Night Waves - Terence Stamp

    Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp as a...

  16. Night Waves - Tarkovsky

    Philip Dodd and Susan Hitch review the world premier of Jonathan Dove's opera, Life is...

  17. Night Waves - Taliban Poetry

    Rana Mitter reads a new collection of poetry from the Taliban in a newly translated to...

  18. Night Waves - Syrian Art

    Malu Halasa, curator of the Culture in Defiance exhibition in Amsterdam, joins Matthew...

  19. Night Waves - Sylvia Plath

    Matthew Sweet discusses the legacy of Sylvia Plath, who died 50 years ago this week,...

  20. Night Waves - Suffrage Plays

    Anne McElvoy talks to Debra Craine about British choreographer Akram Khan’s new or...

  21. Night Waves - Stanislavski

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the life and work of the Russian director Konstantin...

  22. Night Waves - Sir John Major

    Sir John Major talks to Matthew Sweet and is joined by comedian Roy Hudd to discuss of...

  23. Night Waves - Simon Schama, Beeban Kidron, End of Human Rights

    Historian Simon Schama joins Philip Dodd to discuss his book and TV series The Story...

  24. Night Waves - Simon Schama

    Simon Schama joins Anne McElvoy to discuss his foray into literature, and the it...

  25. Night Waves - Sicilian Culture

    As a new book about warring philosophical frenemies Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre...

  26. Night Waves - Shlomo Sand

    Adam Mars-Jones reviews the first West End revival of the nine Tony award winning; A...

  27. Night Waves - Sheryl Sandberg

    Anne McElvoy and Susannah Clapp review the west-end play Doktor Glas, starring Krister...

  28. Night Waves - Shame

    Philip Dodd along with Dr Tim Stanley and Paul Glastris review the American version of...

  29. Night Waves - Sex and the Arab World

    Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, joins Philip Dodd to explore how the a...

  30. Night Waves - Sebastian Faulks

    Award-winning author Sebastian Faulks speaks to Rana Mitter about his new novel, A the...

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