Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Night Waves - Live Forever
Matthew Sweet talks to David Hare. His new play South Downs is paired with a new of at...
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Night Waves - Lincoln
This Night Waves special is devoted to Abraham Lincoln. As Steven Spielberg's new of a...
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Night Waves - Leonardo da Vinci
In this edition of Night Waves with Anne McElvoy, cardiac surgeon Francis Wells takes...
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Night Waves - Le Grand Meaulnes
A Landmark edition in which Anne McElvoy and guests look at Alain-Fournier's and tale...
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Night Waves - Landmarks: The Making of the English Working Class
Philip Dodd explores one of the classics of social history, The Making of the English...
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Night Waves - Landmarks: Bram Stoker's Dracula
As we approach the centenary of Bram Stoker's death, Philip Dodd presents a Landmark...
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Night Waves - Landmarks: Blackmail
This Landmark programme is devoted to Hitchcock’s drama Blackmail. Matthew Sweet is...
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Night Waves - Landmark: The Tempest
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest, a drama...
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Night Waves - Landmark: The Old Men at the Zoo
In Night Waves’ second outing to London Zoo, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Angus...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Rijksmuseum
Matthew Sweet visits Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch, to...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Pride & Prejudice
Anne McElvoy settles decorously into Regency England to celebrate the bicentenary of...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Oh What a Lovely War
Fifty years since Oh What a Lovely War was first performed, Night Waves pays tribute...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Le Grand Meaulnes
A Landmark edition in which Anne McElvoy and guests look at Alain-Fournier's and tale...
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Night Waves - Landmark: Jean Brodie
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition examining Muriel Spark's 1961 novel The Prime...
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Night Waves - La Grande Illusion
Anne McElvoy presents a landmark edition on the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion.
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Night Waves - Kurt Schwitters
As the Tate Britain opens a new exhibition of the work of Kurt Schwitters, art critic...
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Night Waves - Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Secretary General, is Philip guest...
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Night Waves - Khaled Hosseini
Former physician and best-selling author, Khaled Hosseini talks to Rana Mitter about -...
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Night Waves - Ken Loach
Ken Loach talks to Philip Dodd about his new documentary Spirit of '45, which the of...
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Night Waves - Ken Dodd
Matthew Sweet talks to the comedian Ken Dodd about his life and career.
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Night Waves - Jung Chang & Allende
With Rana Mitter. Bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang discusses her new of in...
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Night Waves - Julius Caesar
Samira Ahmed hosts a discussion about cross casting with Fiona Shaw and Carol Rutter a...
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Night Waves - Julia O'Faolain
Matthew Sweet talks to Booker-nominated novelist Julia O’Faolain about her new and a...
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Night Waves - Jude Kelly
Matthew Sweet talks to the Artistic Director of the South Bank Centre, Jude Kelly and...
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Night Waves - Joss Whedon
Samira Ahmed talks to Joss Whedon, creator of the cult TV hit Buffy The Vampire whose...
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Night Waves - John le Carre special
In a special event recorded in front of an audience at London's Royal College of Music...
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Night Waves - John Irving
Rana Mitter meets John Irving whose new novel 'In One Person' examines loss of loss of...
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Night Waves - John Healy and Marilynne Robinson
Matthew Sweet talks to the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist Marilynne the...
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Night Waves - John Agard
What does a nineteenth century Swedish play have to say about post-apartheid South to...
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Night Waves - Jo Nesbo
Philip Dodd talks to Playwright Howard Brenton discussing his new play, 55 days, on...
