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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

    BBC Head of News James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

  2. Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

    Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & anthropology pioneers

  3. Nature Memoirs

    Rana Mitter looks at fens, flatlands, wild swimming and a little-changed Bulgarian valley

  4. Nationalisms: Jerry Brotton, Elif Shafak, John Breuilly

    Jerry Brotton talks to Rana Mitter about Elizabethan England and the Islamic World.

  5. Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality

    Gordon's play Nine Night, the life of Botswana's most influential writer, Rwanda on TV

  6. Narnia and CS Lewis

    Exploring the literary and theological terrain of C.S. Lewis's Narnia

  7. Napoleon the gardener and art thief

    Ruth Scurr, Emma Rothschild and Natasha Pulley look at French history with Rana Mitter

  8. Napoleon in Fact & Fiction

    Napoleon impersonators, ballads and what if he didn't die in exile?

  9. Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas

    The work of Turner Prize nominees, a Tiger Bay murder story, Under Milk Wood on stage

  10. Myths, ships and history

    Anna McKay, Lloyd Belton and Oliver Finnegan delve in the deep for seafaring histories

  11. Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill

    Monsters and myths in the art of Gerald Scarfe and Kiki Smith + Caryl Churchill's plays.

  12. My Neighbour Totoro

    Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.

  13. My Neighbour Totoro

    Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film

  14. Muses and women's creativity

    From Pre-Raphaelite models to the daughter of Maud Gonne: Naomi Paxton with new research

  15. Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English

    In the 200th year of Mrs Gaskell's birth, Jenny Uglow and Katheryn Hughes discuss her...

  16. Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science

    Rachel Hewitt has been researching the pioneering Irish climber Mrs Aubrey Le Blond.

  17. Mould-Breaking Writing

    Max Porter, Chloe Aridjis, Will Harris and Xine Yao on writing the breaks the mould

  18. Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

    Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

  19. Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

    Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz & Lucy Bolton join Matthew Sweet to look at this 1966 film.

  20. Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of Iran

    Molly Dineen discusses her first collection of documentaries on DVD. Brian Christian...

  21. Modernism around the world

    Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art

  22. Modernism Around The World

    The Bauhaus in Deli, Japanese and South African novels, and poetry and art in Mexico

  23. Modern Dutch Writing

    Laurence Scott looks at the way Dutch writers are addressing history & contemporary life

  24. Mocking power past and present.

    The German joker Tyll Ulenspiegel. Anne McElvoy, Daniel Kehlmann & Karen Leeder discuss.

  25. Moby Duck, The Art of Peace, Appointment with the Wicker Man

    With Rana Mitter. Donovan Hohn talks about tracking 28,000 yellow plastic ducks lost...

  26. Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

    Matthew Sweet excavates the culture and arts of mining

  27. Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence

    Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between mining, the arts, and culture

  28. Milton: Samson Agonistes

    How do we look at blindness in poetic writing, classics, in Milton's and Handel's life?

  29. Milton and our modern world

    It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce

  30. Miles Davis and On The Corner

    Matthew Sweet and guests explore this genre-stretching album released on 11th Oct 1972

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