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Free Thinking 2009
Radio 3's ideas festival, with interviews, talks, public debates, drama and performance
Free Thinking 2010
Radio 3's festival of ideas, with interviews, talks, debates, drama and live performance
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Philip Dodd presents a debate asking 'should Britain give up its delusions of grandeur?'.
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Isabel Hilton talks to Richard Reynolds about the history of 'guerrilla gardening'.
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Isabel Hilton talks to Newsweek International's editor Fareed Zakaria about his new book.
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Anne McElvoy talks to artist Jeff Koons and sees the latest gangster blockbuster.
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Matthew Sweet asks if dialogue is overrated, 80 years after the first talkie film.
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Philip Dodd talks to Tim Robinson about his book on life in Connemara, Ireland.
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Matthew Sweet assesses a new production of The Investigation performed by Rwandan actors.
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Philip Dodd talks to American writer John Patrick Shanley about his film Doubt.
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Isabel Hilton presents the arts and ideas programme.
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Historian Julian Jackson examines the legacy of Charles de Gaulle.
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Matthew Sweet presents news and discussion of the arts events of the week.
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Philip Dodd and guests discuss the future of food.
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Isabel Hilton with a review of the Royal Opera House's performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
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Isabel Hilton and guests explore the iconic medical text, Gray's Anatomy.
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Isabel Hilton hears how some African thinkers are now rejecting the idea of overseas aid.
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Journalist Susan Faludi talks to Rana Mitter about 9/11's influence on American women.
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Night Waves' Landmarks series focuses on The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
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Isabel Hilton talks to Heidi Holland about her new book on the life of Robert Mugabe.
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Anne McElvoy and guests explore the latest cultural issues.
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Matthew Sweet presents the arts and ideas programme.
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Rana Mitter explores advertising at war in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.
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Philip Dodd and guests analyse the announcement of this year's Turner Prize winner.
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Philip Dodd talks to one of France's best-known intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Levy.
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Sociologist Richard Sennett talks about the the work of the hand and the work of the brain
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Julian Barnes discusses his new book abd actress Fiona Shaw reviews a new Major Barbara.
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With Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, who won the first Man Booker International Prize.
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Philip Dodd on the classic 1960s film Blow-Up, directed by the late Michelangelo Antonioni
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Philip Dodd talks to cancer researcher Prof Frances Balkwill.
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Isabel Hilton talks to photo-journalist Steve McCurry about his work in Afghanistan.
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Mathew Sweet explores our changing attitudes to pleasure and our motives for seeking it.
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Matthew Sweet talks to author Peter Carey about his new book His Illegal Self.
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Isabel Hilton talks to Samantha Power, an adviser to US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
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Another programme in the series devoted to exploring the great cultural landmarks.
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Matthew Sweet and historian Tristram Hunt consider Britain's Victorian architecture.
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Bidisha talks to director Danny Boyle about his new film Slumdog Millionaire.
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With an exhibition of the work of avant-garde Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss DW Griffith's controversial classic The Birth of a Nation
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Kenan Malik talks to a group of laywers about acting in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
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Bidisha is joined by artist Grayson Perry and American satirist Barbara Ehrenreich.
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Philip Dodd talks to Richard Reeves, author of a new biography of John Stuart Mill.
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Matthew Sweet takes a tour behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum.
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Philip Dodd discusses the enduring fascination with the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Philip Dodd and guests explore Plato's classic text The Trial and Death of Socrates.
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With Misha Glenny on his new book on and Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal.
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DJ Matt Mason looks at whether 'youth culture' has anything meaningful to offer society.
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Anne McElvoy talks to economis Richard Thaler about his book Nudge.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics and Medicine.
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Isabel Hilton's guest is historian and television presenter Simon Schama.
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Philip Dodd talks to literary scholar and writer George Steiner about his new work.
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Bill Drummond talks about the future of music and his campaign to end recorded works.
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With Lord Lawson and Prof Mike Hulme debating climate change.
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With Xu Bing, one of China's leading artists, on his new work and the Chinese art scene.
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Lawrence Pollard talks to Russian writer Masha Gessen about her book Blood Matters.
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Philip Dodd talks to Stephen Fry about his his journey across America in a taxi.
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Night Waves explores the cultural legacy of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
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Rana Mitter talks to India's greatest living artist MF Husain, known as India's Picasso.
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Kenan Malik and guests talk about Tom Hanks's new film and debate the use of non-violence.
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A special interview with poet and dramatist Tony Harrison.
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With a review of Nicholas Hytner's Royal Opera House production of Verdi's Don Carlo.
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Writer Christopher Hitchens talks about his decision to undergo 'waterboarding'.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Schama about his new book The American Future: A History.
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A special panel re-examines the classic BBC drama Boys from the Blackstuff.
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Rana Mitter presents the arts and ideas magazine, with interviews, debates and discussion.
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Philip Dodd talks to Mike Davies, the architect in charge of the new Heathrow Terminal 5.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the new film about armed robber Charles Bronson.
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In an extended interview, British film director Mike Leigh talks about his new film.
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With Michael Frayn on his new play Afterlife, about the founder of the Salzburg Festival.
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With musician/artist Bill Drummond on his latest project. Plus novelist Andrew Sean Greer.
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Philip Dodd discusses the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon of 1970s Germany.
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Philip Dodd talks to Italian writer Umberto Eco about his wide-ranging and diverse career.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Gilles Kepel about his vision for the future of Islam and the West.
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With a discussion on miracles, plus Edward Cullinan on architecture and climate change.
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Matthew Sweet talks to the Booker Prize-winning Irish writer Anne Enright.
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Anne McElvoy presents the arts and ideas programme.
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With a first-night review of The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold, author of National Velvet.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to novelist Richard Ford about American short stories.
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Rana Mitter talks to psychologist Penelope Leach, author of the book Your Baby and Child.
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With Rana Mitter and guests debating the state of Pakistani democracy.
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Kenan Malik sees the results of the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool's expensive refit.
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Susan Greenfield discusses her new book and her role as director of the Royal Institution.
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With John Laughland on his book The History of Political Trials, and Bob Dylan's paintings
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Philip Dodd with the arts and ideas programme, including a debate on the value of optimism
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Rana Mitter talks to Harvard moral philosopher Michael Sandel about justice.
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From Radio 3's festival of ideas, Philip Dodd asks 'Are we freer than we think?'.
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Matthew Sweet reviews Gethsemane, the new play by David Hare at the National Theatre.
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Philip Dodd meets Tom Loosemore, one of the leading British thinkers on the internet.
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Philip Dodd talks to psychoanalyst Adam Phillips about the virtues of kindness.
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Philip Dodd meets Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist who became a gang leader.
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Architect Lord Richard Rogers talks to Philip Dodd about his life's work.
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Playwright Shelagh Stephenson discusses her latest work, The Long Road.
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Matthew Sweet introduces art historian Evelyn Welch plus a discussion on anti-semitism.
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Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project, outlines his vision for Inspiration in Education
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Matthew Sweet and a round table of guests debate the cultural issues of the week.
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Matthew Sweet interviews Auschwitz survivor and human rights judge Thomas Buergenthal.
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With German writer Bernard Schlink and an exhibition of classic photos from Vanity Fair.
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Author Doris Lessing discusses her new book Alfred and Emily, about her parents' lives.
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews Errol Morris's new documentary about Abu Ghraib prison.
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Rana Mitter talks to Richard Evans about his distinguished career as a historian.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Dave Eggers about his novel The Wild Things.
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Roger Philips of Radio Merseyside asks 'Have we destroyed the dream of equality?'.
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Matthew Sweet presents the arts and ideas magazine with interviews, reviews and debate.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. Including historian Felipe Fernandez Armesto on the year 1492.
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Isabel Hilton talks to Xiaolu Guo about her new novel 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth.
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Prof Sean Spence discusses the ethics of using pharmacology to regulate human behaviour.
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Will Self talks about his new novel The Butt.
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With international lawyer Philippe Sands on his new book Torture Team.
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Philip Dodd and guests explore whether we have become an emotionally incontinent society.
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Philip Dodd talks to Philip Roth, one of America's most celebrated living writers.
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Professor of Space Science John Zarnecki asks 'Space. Why are we there?'.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to author AS Byatt about a new anthology of writing on memory.
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In a programme-length interview, author Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel.
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Philip Dodd marks the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII with a reappraisal of the monarch.
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Philip Dodd marks the 20th anniversary of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
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With writer Marshall Berman, a look at shopping malls and Andrew Sean Greer's latest book.
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Rana Mitter talks to historian Tom Holland about his new book, Millenium.
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Bidisha gives the verdict on the Coen brothers film Burn after Reading.
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Philip Dodd hosts a debate asking whatever happened to childhood?
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A look at the work and influence of French playwright Yasmina Reza.
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Matthew Sweet talks to film maker Paul Watson about one of his new plays for radio.
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston and guests review the new BBC4 series Jews.
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Matthew Sweet investigates stories that feature the last surviving person on earth.
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The writer Sukhdev Sandhu leads Matthew Sweet into the dark heart of night-time London.
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Matthew Sweet speaks to famous novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux about his new book.
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Bidisha presents the arts and ideas programme - with interviews, debate and reviews.
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Matthew Sweet talks to film director Ang Lee.
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Philip Dodd and guests debate the state of global capitalism.
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With a debate on what our pets say about ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
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Psychotherapist George Makari talks about his new book on Freud.
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Isabel Hilton reports from Beijing about the health of the media in China today.
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Michael Nyman tells Rana Mitter about his new work, 50,000 Pairs Of Feet Can't Be Wrong.
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Philip Dodd talks to novelist Howard Jacobson about his new book The Act of Love.
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Rana Mitter explores a new translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince.
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Matthew Sweet presents more highlights from the 2008 Free Thinking festival of ideas.
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Bidisha speaks to celebrated British fashion designer Hussein Chalayan.
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Philip Dodd reviews a major new exhibition of work by artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the controversial population theories of Thomas Malthus.
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Richard Holmes discusses his new book about John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough.
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Presented by Kenan Malik. With writer Marek Kohn discussing trust and its origins.
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Isabel Hilton assesses the health of design in Britain before a major London exhibition.
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Kenan Malik talks to historian Peter Hennessy about his new book, 'Cabinets and the Bomb'.
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Anne McElvoy presents the arts and ideas programme.
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Isabel Hilton and guests assess the new film about the life of Bob Dylan I'm Not There.
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Philip Dodd examines a controversial new biography of pioneering sociologist Max Weber.
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Isabel Hilton presents the arts discussion programme.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to psychologist Susan Pinker about her book on gender difference.
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Richard Reynolds, the 'guerilla gardener', on why planting flowers is a form of politics.
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With a review of the musical Margueritte, based on Alexander Dumas's La Dame aux camelias.
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Peter Conrad tells Philip Dodd how artists and scientists have challenged the role of gods
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Matthew Sweet discusses the film Quiet Chaos, starring actor-director Nanni Moretti.
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Architect Lord Richard Rogers talks to Philip Dodd about his life's work.
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Philip Dodd talks Richard Attenborough.
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Anne McElvoy talks to playwright Nina Raine and former death row inmate Wilbert Rideau.
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With a discussion on the art of arguing and a look at the new film version of Sweeney Todd
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Isabel Hilton talks to Daniel Tammet about his memoir about life with Asperger's syndrome.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi visits Bradford to explore the state of social cohesion in Britain.
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Writer David Lodge discusses his new novel about a man coming to terms with deafness.
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Philip Dodd is joined by historian Tony Judt to discuss history and myth-making.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. Including a biography of William Hazlitt.
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British director and artist Patrick Keiller talks to Philip Dodd.
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Orlando Figes reviews the new exhibition of Masterpieces from Russian Museums.
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Bidisha reviews Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise as Hitler's would-be assassin.
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Bill Emmott considers Japan's role in the newly emerging world order.
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Rana Mitter talks to Robert Kagan about his new book on issues facing liberal democracies.
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Isabel Hilton talks to veteran foreign correspondent Ann Leslie about her autobiography.
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What effect is Ireland's wealth having on the spiritual and moral health of the nation?
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Anne McElvoy talks to film director Terence Davies about his film Of Time and the City.
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A special programme dedicated to the many new books being published about modern China.
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A programme exploring the changing art and culture inspired by Armageddon.
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Matthew Sweet presents the arts and ideas programme.
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Bidisha talks to American writer Marilynne Robinson about her new book Home.
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Keenan Malik assesses Frederic Raphael's update to his 70s TV series The Glittering Prizes
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Matthew Sweet and a panel discuss ideas currently being debated in the field of economics.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Paul Haggis, director of Crash, about his new film.
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Arts and cultural news and debate, plus reports from spring festivals around the world.
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A discussion on the British fashion for 'Chinese Style' in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Rana Mitter and guests discuss Red Sorghum, Zhang Yimou's film about peasant life in China
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Gabriel Gbadamosi and Richard Mabey explore our long-standing relationship with trees.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss former Czech president Vaclav Havel's new play Leaving.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi looks at the cultural activities of France's North African community.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the actress and suffragette Sybil Thorndike with Jonathan Croall.
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Matthew Sweet talks to the American political satirist PJ O'Rourke.
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Matthew Sweet talks to David Edgar about his new play on Britishness, Testing the Echo.
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Rana Mitter talks to Israeli writer Ron Leshem about his novel set in occupied Lebanon.
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Philip Dodd talks to important figures in the contemporary Chinese cultural scene.
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Kenan Malik visits a new exhibition of the work of Victorian artist John Everett Millais.
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Philip Dodd looks at the economic and cultural legacy of the Ford Model T car.
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Philip Dodd talks to Craig Venter, one of the key scientists in human genome research.
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Philip Dodd looks at what makes certain people successful with writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Rana Mitter talks to Christopher Frayling, outgoing chair of Arts Council England.
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Rana Mitter meets controversial Nobel Prize-winning economist Josepsh Stiglitz.
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With Philip Dodd talking to the new head of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny.
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Philip Dodd and guests discuss censorship. Was Mary Whitehouse right after all?
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Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to Stuart Murray about how autism is represented in modern culture
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Philip Dodd is joined by historian Orlando Figes and innovative film-maker Julie Taymor.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi reviews the new ENO production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
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Bidisha discusses the art of Saul Steinberg, who worked on The New Yorker for six decades.
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Philip Dodd talks to Tariq Ramadan, one of Europe's leading Muslim thinkers.
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Kenan Malik talks to author Hanif Kureishi about his new novel Something to Tell You.
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Matthew Sweet explores the life and work of the First World War poet Isaac Rosenberg.
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Paul Allen talks to American short story writer Lorrie Moore.
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Matthew Sweet looks at the new version of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros.
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Bidisha reviews Oliver Stone's film W and debates the idea that the brain is overestimated
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Philip Dodd and guests analyse and debate the key cultural issues of the week.
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Kenan Malik and guests the sensory condition of synaesthesia and its link with creativity.
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Psychotherapist Susie Orbach talks about our growing obsession with body image.
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Philip Dodd and guests discuss key issues facing Britain's Jewish community.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Bishop Gene Robinson - the first openly gay man to become a bishop.
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With Julia Neuberger on her new book Not Dead Yet, a manifesto for 'grey power'.
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With Tim Robinson on his books about life in Connemara, Ireland, plus Love's Labour's Lost
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With a look at the plight of women in Pakistan, political summits and the royal theatre.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to Sebastian Barry about his new novel The Secret Scripture.
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With psychoanalyst Adam Philips discussing his new book Intimacies.
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Matthew Sweet reviews the film version of Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited.
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Matthew Sweet examines the success of Channel 4 as it celebrates its 25th birthday.
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Film director Mike Figgis delivers a lecture entitled 'Is There Too Much Culture?'.
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Philip Dodd meets Martin Amis and JG Ballard, who are publishing new works of non-fiction.
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American writer Nicholson Baker discusses his new book Human Smoke.
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Arts and cultural news and debate with Philip Dodd.
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Bidisha talks to Lou Reed about the upcoming screen version of his 1973 album Berlin.
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Rana Mitter talks to Elie Wiesel, author of the famous holocaust memoir, Nigh.
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The arts and ideas programme.
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Philip Dodd explores how recent waves of immigration are changing British culture.
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With a leading mathematician's new book on symmetry and Nick Broomfield's latest film.
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Julie Andrews talks Matthew Sweet about her new autobiography.
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Rana Mitter explores the relationship between scientific progress and science fiction.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the film A bout de souffle and the photography of Sally Mann.
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Philip Dodd discusses the politics, culture and morality of a possible age of austerity.
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Anne McElvoy reassesses the legacy of Abraham Lincoln 200 years after his birth.
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With Adam Phillips on his new book about greed and excess.
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Anne McElvoy discusses Alan Lomax, pioneering oral historian of US folk and blues.
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Philip Dodd talks to Alastair Campbell and Turkish writer Elif Shafak.
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Anne McElvoy talks to the writer Alberto Manguel, expert in the art of reading.
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Philip Dodd talks to the political theorist Alex Callinicos.
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Rana Mitter talks to music critic Alex Ross. Plus the new Climate Science gallery.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, who won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
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Rana Mitter talks to historian Amanda Foreman about her new book A World on Fire.
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Anne McElvoy talks to historian Amanda Vickery about domestic life in Georgian England.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With economist Amartya Sen and playwright Mark Ravenhill.
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Rana Mitter talks to celebrated Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri about his novel The Immortals
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Rana Mitter presents an extended conversation with celebrated Israeli writer Amos Oz.
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Matthew Sweet interviews the American novelist and former psychotherapist Amy Bloom.
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Matthew Sweet and biographer Nigel Smith discuss 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Andrew O'Hagan whose latest novel centres on Marilyn Monroe's dog.
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Anne McElvoy debates a film about one of the most controversial massacres in World War Two
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Philip Dodd talks to surfing enthusiast, professor Andy Martin, about his new book.
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Philip Dodd talks to Booker Prize winning writer Anne Enright.
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Anne McElvoy talks to sculptor Anish Kapoor ahead of a new exhibition.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With sculptor Anthony Caro and David Baddiel on his new film.
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Anthony Julius talks to Anne McElvoy about the long history of English anti-Semitism.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Antichrist reviewed and Harvey Klehr on the KGB in the US
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Philip Dodd talks to historian Lady Antonia Fraser about her husband Harold Pinter.
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Philip Dodd looks at the burgeoning art scene in China and discusses the life of Socrates.
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Bidisha and novelist Arundhati Roy discuss the faultlines threatening India's democracy.
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Matthew Sweet presents an extended conversation with novelist AS Byatt.
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Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi discusses his new novel The Patience Stone.
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Anne McElvoy meets controversial Iranian author and thinker Azar Nafisi.
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Philip Dodd talks examines the world created by the Baby Boomer generation.
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Anne McElvoy talks to journalist Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book Smile and Die.
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Anne McElvoy presents an interview with Baroness Warnock.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Barry Humphries and celebrates the work of TV writer Alan Plater.
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Philip Dodd on one of the most influential design movements of the modern age - Bauhaus.
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Philip Dodd hosts a debate from Berlin 20 years after the fall of the Wall.
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Bidisha talks to South Africa's novelist Andre Brink, and discusses the chastity movement.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Simon Sebag Montefiore about his new biography of Jerusalem.
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Matthew Sweet presents an edition of the programme dedicated to the world of boys.
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Anne McElvoy talks to US author Bret Easton Ellis about his new novel, Imperial Bedrooms.
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Philip Dodd discusses pioneering oral historian Alan Lomax and Will Self's Idea of 2010.
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With Matthew Sweet. Including Caryl Phillips and the new Great North Museum.
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Matthew Sweet reviews an all-star version of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Isabel Hilton explores the life of the Russian empress Catherine the Great.
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Rana Mitter asks who has been the most influential: Charles Darwin or Marx and Freud?
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Matthew Sweet talks to Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.
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Philip Dodd explores the eternal use of chess as a measure of human intelligence.
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Matthew Sweet talks to the new Children's Laureate and discusses the reign of Mary Tudor.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the lasting impact of Florence Nightingale.
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At the end of Holy Week, Rana Mitter and guests examine Christianity in the Arab world.
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Philip Dodd talks to Christopher Caldwell about his book on European immigration.
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Bidisha asks what it means to be civilised and whether civilisation is an outdated concept
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Philip Dodd talks to celebrated French film director Claire Denis.
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Matthew Sweet discusses Clint Eastwood's continuing significance in cinema.
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Matthew Sweet talks to celebrated essayist, critic and writer Clive James.
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With Philip Dodd. Includes Colm Toibin, Gauguin at Tate Modern and Christoper Isherwood.
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Ian Rankin joins Matthew Sweet to examine James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
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Artist Maggi Hambling discusses John Constable's lesser-known portraits.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With photographer Martin Parr and Made in Dagenham reviewed.
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Philip Dodd talks to poet Craig Raine and meets design guru John Maeda.
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Isabel Hilton re-assesses the reputation of economics in the wake of the credit crunch.
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Philip Dodd presents a crime special, talking to PD James and Diego Gambetta.
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Matthew Sweet talks to film director Danny Boyle. Plus British philanthropy.
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Isabel Hilton discusses French revolutionary Georges Danton. Plus Michael Goldfarb on 1969
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Philip Dodd and David Cesarani discuss attacks on Britain by Zionist groups in the 1940s.
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Philip Dodd talks to playwright David Edgar about the art of writing for the stage.
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With historian David Kynaston on his new book and the Royal Academy sculpture exhibition.
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Anne McElvoy on David Lloyd George with his biographer Roy Hattersley and Shirley Williams
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Presented by Rana Mitter. With David Mitchell and Sheila Rowbotham, plus the new Eurydice.
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Matthew Sweet reviews a David Nash retrospective and interviews Michael Winterbottom.
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Phillip Dodd discusses a biography of Barack Obama and EM Forster's homosexuality.
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Philip Dodd reviews Derek Jacobi as King Lear directed by Michael Grandage.
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Rana Mitter talks to Diarmaid MacCulloch on his book The History of Christianity.
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Rana Mitter looks at the state of photography today as an art form and tool of reportage.
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Philip Dodd interviews Douglas Hurd and discusses the legacy of Arthur Koestler.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the first production of Dylan Thomas's newly discovered radio play
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With Philip Dodd. Jonathan Miller and Julia Neuberger on the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. With a discussion on elections and the visual arts.
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Anne McElvoy celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Bidisha visits a complete re-creation of an Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle.
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Bidisha discusses Eonnagata, Sylvie Guillem's dance project about a 17th-century spy.
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Matthew Sweet talks to playwright and poet Frank McGuinness about his new play.
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Philip Dodd talks to director Erik Gandini about his documentary on Silvio Berlusconi.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Olivia de Havilland about her one-time co-star Errol Flynn.
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Philip Dodd considers whether Pablo Picasso's political importance has been neglected.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. With Eva Hoffman on her new book about the concept of time.
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Anne McElvoy asks whether feminism is a central part of a civilised society.
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With Fintan O'Toole on creating a new republic in Ireland.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With critic Frank Kermode and a debate on studying English.
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Rana Mitter talks to influential primatologist Frans de Waal.
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Anne McElvoy talks to the acclaimed American documentary maker Frederick Wiseman.
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Matthew Sweet presents more highlights from the 2008 Free Thinking Festival.
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Matthew Sweet presents Free Thinking 2008 debates, interviews, dramas and lectures.
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Matthew Sweet and guests explore the value of experience in society today.
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The arts and ideas programme.
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Matthew Sweet presents a debate on bridging the generation gap from Free Thinking 2008.
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Trevor Phillips of the Equality and Human Rights Commission on democracy's tough choices.
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Ruth Deech asks what high-profile divorce settlements say about partnership.
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Philosopher John Gray argues that 'being green' can be dangerous.
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Philip Dodd chairs a debate from the Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool about privacy.
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Susan Hitch chairs a debate about the US Constitution, at the Free Thinking Festival 2008.
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Rana Mitter and Tristram Hunt explore the life of the philosopher Friedrich Engels.
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Rana Mitter discusses Galileo, a stage version of Birdsong and Nigerian national identity.
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Anne McElvoy reviews the National Theatre's new production of The White Guard.
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Matthew Sweet talks to writer Glen David Gold about his new novel Sunnyside.
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Anne McElvoy reviews Paul Greengrass's new film Green Zone, which stars Matt Damon.
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Rana Mitter revisits the great debates of the 18th century about artistic originality.
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Rana Mitter talks to Hanif Kureishi as a stage version of his novel opens.
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Philip Dodd talks to leading German poet and intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Harold Evans, one Britain's most celebrated newspapermen.
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Philip Dodd and guests on Henry Mayhew's masterpiece London Labour and the London Poor.
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Philip Dodd and his guests ask if sprawling slum cities are the future of urban life.
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Matthew Sweet with Free Thinking 2008 highlights, including Paul Preston and Mark Haddon.
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Rana Mitter talks to Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel about her novel Wolf Hall.
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Matthew Sweet and historian Ronald Hutton on the history and reinvention of the Druids.
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Isabel Hilton finds out what ingredients are necessary to make a good Eyptyian gallery.
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With playwright Howard Brenton and a debate about perfection.
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Hugh Pennington discusses the science and politics behind food fashions of our own time.
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Rana Mitter talks to Ian McEwan about his much-anticipated new novel Solar.
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Anne McElvoy talks to artist Maggi Hambling about her portrayals of the Crucifixion.
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Matthew Sweet hosts an international edition, with cultural critics from around the world.
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Matthew Sweet presents an international edition of the arts and ideas magazine.
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Matthew Sweet and international guests on Herta Muller, eco art and cultures of dance.
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Matthew Sweet is joined by critics from around the world to review international arts.
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Anne McElvoy hosts an International Review edition, with critics from across the world.
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Philip Dodd and guests on the leading thinker of the 20th century, Sir Isaiah Berlin.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. With actor James Earl Jones and the legacy of Albert Camus.
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In an extended conversation, Philip Dodd talks to pioneering scientist James Lovelock.
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Matthew Sweet talks to director Jane Campion. Plus Michael Goldfarb's memories of 1989.
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Matthew Sweet talks to choreographer Javier de Frutos about working on Macbeth.
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Philip Dodd talks to Nobel prize-winning author Jean Marie Le Clezio.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Jennifer Homans about the history of classical ballet.
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With Jenny Uglow, Robert Service, the film Swastika and a new version of Inherit the Wind.
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Matthew Sweet talks to playwright Joe Penhall and novelist Edmund White.
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Rana Mitter and Claire Tomalin on diarist, gossip and horticulturalist John Evelyn.
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Matthew Sweet talks to designer, architect and champion of minimalism John Pawson.
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Anne McElvoy interviews John Simpson about his views on contemporary journalism.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet talks. With novelist Jonathan Coe and artist Yinka Shonibare.
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Rana Mitter talks to Jonathan Fenby about his new book about Charles de Gaulle.
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Anne McElvoy talks to economist Joseph Stiglitz and fashion designer Hussein Chalayan.
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Isabel Hilton talks to author Julia Franck. Plus a review of Tate Modern's Futurism show.
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Isabel Hilton talks to Karen Armstrong about her defence of religion and the case for God.
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Isabel Hilton looks at the cultural history of knots.
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Matthew Sweet explores novels that have caused social or legal changes.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss David Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.
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Rana Mitter examines The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, the bible of modern feminism.
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Film director Mike Leigh joins Philip Dodd to discuss Francois Truffaut's Jules et Jim.
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Anne McElvoy explores novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece The Master and Margarita.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the 1974 play trilogy The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn.
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Matthew Sweet explores Jacques Cousteau's revolutionary documentary The Silent World.
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Philip Dodd explores The Threepenny Opera.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With playwright Laura Wade; Will Self and AK Shevchenko.
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Matthew Sweet talks to experimental artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With writer Rosamund Bartlett on Tolstoy's life and work.
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Rana Mitter and guests discuss the meaning of liberalism at the start of the 21st century.
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Rana Mitter talks to academic Lisa Jardine about her scientist father, Jacob Bronowski.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With journalist Lorraine Adams and the work of Francis Alys.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hitchens and discusses sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
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Matthew Sweet sees Dame Judi Dench in an all-star production of the play Madame de Sade.
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Rana Mitter returns for a new season of the Arts and ideas magazine.
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Philip Dodd talks to the American novelist Marilynne Robinson.
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Anne McElvoy discusses The St Ives group of artists and a new Che Guevera biography.
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Philip Dodd and guests the life and legacy of Mark Twain, who died in 1910.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Martha Nussbaum, Nina Bawden and Tudormania.
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In an extended interview, Philip Dodd talks to writer Martin Amis about his latest novel.
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Rana Mitter talks to moral philospher Mary Midgley.
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Philip Dodd talks to Mary Midgley and Tom Shakespeare talks to Havi Carel.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Melvyn Bragg on a life in the arts.
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Anne McElvoy on the legacy of the 20th century's first social revolution - in Mexico.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. With economist Muhammad Yunus and historian Michael Burleigh.
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With Anne McElvoy. Michael Goldfarb on his experience of the 1989 revolutions in Europe.
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With Philip Dodd. American writer Michael Goldfarb recalls the 1969 Woodstock festival.
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Philip Dodd with renowned biographer Michael Holroyd on what he's calling his final book.
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Bidisha reports on a speech by Prince Charles to the Royal Insitute of British Architects.
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Rana Mitter presents a review of a TV version of Martin Amis's Money.
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Philip Dodd meets an Indian computer technology guru with a new vision for his nation.
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Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.
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Rana Mitter talks to historian Niall Ferguson about the history of ethics and money.
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Isabel Hilton talks to South African Justice Albie Sachs.
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Philip Dodd talks to historian David Starkey, who discusses his biography of Henry VIII.
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Anne McElvoy discusses the work of American illustrator Norman Rockwell.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss why operas are finding their way onto the big screen.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a debate on the role of an opera producer.
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Matthew Sweet discusses French versions of British history and reviews The Last Station.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Pat Barker about her celebrated novels set during World War One.
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Isabel Hilton and veteran US journalist Patrick Tyler on America's role in the Middle East
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Rana Mitter talks to historian Patrick Wright about Anglo-Chinese relations.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Nobel literature prize chair Per Wastberg.
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Philip Dodd talks to Pete Townshend of The Who.
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With Matthew Sweet. Peter Ackroyd; Norman Wisdom; Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Booker Prize-winning novelist Peter Carey about his latest novel.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Peter Greenaway, Vikram Seth and historian Lynn Nead.
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Rana Mitter reviews a new ENO production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes.
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Philip Dodd talks to philosopher Peter Singer about his plan to eradicate world poverty.
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Rana Mitter on Helen Mirren's portrayal of Phedre and John Keane on democracy's future.
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Philip Dodd talks to the novelist Howard Jacobson and reviews Mark Rylance's latest show.
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Philip Dodd on a new cache of letters between Philip Larkin and his lover Monica Jones.
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Best-selling writer Philip Pullman talks to Philip Dodd about his new book.
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Matthew Sweet visits the National Gallery's first Picasso exhibition.
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Bidisha discusses the influence of Polish directors on cultural life in Britain.
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Rana Mitter reviews Posh, a play about an elite dining society like the Bullingdon Club.
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Philip Dodd attempts to bridge the Anglo-French cultural gap over playwright Jean Racine.
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Phillip Dodd previews Radio 3's Sonnets Day, with poet Jo Shapcott.
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Rana Mitter with a new biography of Caravaggio, and a debate on business and green issues.
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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss an exhibition about rank in British society.
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Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher, doctor, poet and critic Raymond Tallis.
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Philip Dodd talks to Economist editor John Micklethwait about the revival of religion.
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Philip Dodd on one of the most momentous and dangerous ideas of recent times - revolution.
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Matthew Sweet talks to playwright Richard Bean about his play England People Very Nice.
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Philip Dodd talks to director Richard Linklater about his film Me and Orson Welles.
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With journalist Richard McGregor and writer Azadeh Moaveni.
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Isabel Hilton and guests, including historian Richard Overy on Britain in the 1930s.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Pulitzer prize-winning former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
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Bidisha talks to Oscar-winning Life Is Beautiful actor Roberto Benigni about Dante.
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Matthew Sweet reviews Robin Hood, the new film by Ridley Scott.
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Matthew Sweet has a first night review of Ibsen's play Ghosts, adapted by Frank McGuinness
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Matthew Sweet debates Rudyard Kipling's place in literary history.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Russell T Davies and discusses painter JW Waterhouse.
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Anne McElvoy talks to critic Andrew Graham-Dixon about the history of Russian art.
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With a season of Russian plays in London's West End.
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Isabel Hilton explores the work of short story writer HH Munro, better known as Saki.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Salman Rushdie about his new novel Luka and the Fire of Life.
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Matthew Sweet explores the legacy of the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie in 1989.
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Philip Dodd asks what Milton's classic text Samson Agonistes tells us about terrorism.
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Philip Dodd and guests assess science in America under Barack Obama.
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Matthew Sweet talks to leading Shakesepeare scholars James Shapiro and Stanley Wells.
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Philip Dodd talks to politician and academic Shirley Williams.
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Rana Mitter talks to Shlomo Sand, author of a controversial history of the Jewish people.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Simon Callow about his new book, My Life in Pieces.
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Rana Mitter talks to famous Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek.
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Anne McElvoy talks to the radical philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Jared Diamond's new columns
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Matthew Sweet presents. With director Stephen Daldry and Joseph P Kennedy in Hollywood.
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Matthew Sweet talks to film-maker Stephen Poliakoff and reviews Michael Haneke's latest.
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Matthew Sweet talks to American film director Steven Soderbergh.
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Brain scientist and author Susan Blackmore explores the notion of free will.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With animated film maker Sylvain Chomet on his latest work.
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Matthew Sweet is in conversation with veteran oceanographer Sylvia Earle.
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Presented by Rana Mitter. With writer and film-maker Tariq Ali.
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Philip Dodd discusses the nature of diplomacy with Charles Kupchan and Douglas Murray.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With director Terry Gilliam and the 2009 Turner Prize.
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Matthew Sweet reviews Francis Ford Coppola's new film and discusses art forgeries.
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Philip Dodd presents an edition exploring the culture and politics of the atom bomb.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With a review of a new version of The Duchess of Malfi.
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Rana Mitter and guests debate the question: 'Is the Enlightenment still relevant today?'.
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Rana Mitter and guests debate whether the Enlightenment is still relevant today?
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Matthew Sweet explores the past, present and future of the comic fool.
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Author and columnist Will Self gives the opening lecture for Radio 3's festival of ideas.
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Celebrated author and columnist Will Self gives the opening lecture at Free Thinking 2008.
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Matthew Sweet chairs a debate about the future of A levels.
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Philip Dodd with a Night Waves Landmark dedicated to Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming.
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Anne McElvoy reviews the new comedy film The Kids Are All Right, starring Annette Bening.
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Anne McElvoy discusses Serge Diaghilev and probes the limits of scientific understanding.
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Anne McElvoy discusses Vladimir Nabokov's previously unpublished final novel.
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Bidisha explores the story of magic books, from Ancient Egypt to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Matthew Sweet talks to the French writer Pacal Bruckner about the power of Western guilt.
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Anne McElvoy talks to The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin about his film The Social Network
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a review of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slippers.
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Matthew Sweet and guests explore Wilkie Collins's influential novel The Woman in White.
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Matthew Sweet meets leading Australian novelists Thomas Keneally and Richard Flanagan.
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Philip Dodd presents a debate on Thomas Paine, plus South African judge Albie Sachs.
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Philip Dodd reviews of a stage version of Ingmar Bergman's film Through a Glass Darkly.
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Philip Dodd examines Tim Burton's makeover of Alice in Wonderland.
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Philip Dodd talks to political historian Timothy Garton Ash.
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. Playwright Tom Murphy and a review of The Kreutzer Sonata.
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Presented by Philip Dodd. With poet and playwright Tom Paulin, plus the new film Precious.
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Tony Benn gives a talk on the value of experience at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2008
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Philip Dodd in extended conversation with former prime minister Tony Blair.
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Philip Dodd talks to historian Tony Judt and sound artist Bill Fontana.
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Bidisha talks to artist Tracey Emin about her drawings.
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Philip Dodd and Ian McMillan on the difficulties and joys of translating foreign poetry.
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Matthew Sweet discusses the impressions of literary visitors to pre-World War II Germany.
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Matthew Sweet interviews the winner of the 2009 TS Eliot prize. Plus the film A Prophet.
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Matthew Sweet and art critic Lynda Nead review a documentary about the life of Mike Tyson.
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Philip Dodd talks to influential Paris-based philosopher Tzvetan Todorov.
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Bidisha discusses whether James Joyce's Ulysses could be a self-help guide in disguise.
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Rana Mitter chairs a round-table discussion on the future of Britain's universities.
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Isabel Hilton talks to author Joanna Bourke about her new book on sexual violence.
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Philip Dodd talks to Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland about his new novel The Gum Thief.
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Kenan Malik talks to best-selling yet controversial psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Matthew Sweet talks to Will Self, one of the leading proponents of psychogeography.
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Matthew Sweet presents interviews and debate on this week’s most important cultural issues
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Philip Dodd talks to Patrick Wright about his new book on the history of the Iron Curtain.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to influential Senegalese singer-songwriter Youssou N'Dour.
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Bidisha discusses the work of the great 17th-Century portraitist Van Dyck.
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Anne McElvoy is joined by Richard Cork to discuss the Royal Academy's Van Gogh exhibition.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Frances Stoner Saunders about would-be assassin Violet Gibson.
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With Anne McElvoy. Including a review of a new production of Waiting for Godot.
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Anne McElvoy talks to choreographer, dancer, director and designer Wayne McGregor.
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Anne McElvoy discusses man's propensity for lying and meets Broadway director Hal Prince.
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With Rana Mitter. William Dalrymple and Madeleine Bunting discuss their new books.
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With German artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
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Philip Dodd talks to Zadie Smith about her new collection of essays Changing My Mind.
Sacred Monsters
Series on cultural figures who have seen their reputations wither in the last decades
Year of Science 2010
Series of interviews with leading scientists from Britain and the rest of the world