Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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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...
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Night Waves - The Profumo Affair
Matthew Sweet picks over the bones of the Profumo affair with the historian Richard of...
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Night Waves - The Octoroon
Matthew Sweet is on stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East for a post-performance 5...
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Night Waves - The New Common Reader
Matthew Sweet is leading an elite party of literary explorers - Linda Grant, Aminatta...
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Night Waves - The Nation State
How relevant is the Nation-State in today's world? Philip Dodd debates the future of...
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Night Waves - The Innocents
A Landmark edition recorded in front of an audience at the British Film Institute as...
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Night Waves - The Hot House
Anne McElvoy applies herself to the crisis of modern banking, the plight of buildings...
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Night Waves - The Great Gatsby
With Samira Ahmed. Sarah Churchwell and Kevin Jackson discuss the Great Gatsby as a by...
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Night Waves - The Girl
Matthew Sweet discusses The Girl, a new film about Alfred Hitchcock’s vexed with the...
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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...
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Night Waves - The Early 1960s
As Andrew Lloyd Webber prepares to open his new musical about Profumo and Stephen 1963...
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Night Waves - The Common Reader
Matthew Sweet leads an elite party of literary explorers - Linda Grant, Aminatta Naomi...
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Night Waves - The Clash of Civilisations?, George Grosz, Simon Heffer
Samuel Huntington’s essay ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’ was published twenty and...
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Night Waves - The Angels' Share
THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. Matthew Sweet watches Ken Loach's new film...
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Night Waves - The Amen Corner
A first night review of the National Theatre's revival of James Baldwin's drama The...
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Night Waves - Terence Stamp
Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp as a...
