Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Night Waves - David Eagleman
Anne McElvoy talks to neuroscientist David Eagleman to discuss the new ethical issues...
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Night Waves - David Cronenberg
Anne McElvoy asks Director David Cronenberg if he sees himself as a political or are...
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Night Waves - Danny Boyle
The Olympics ceremony master Danny Boyle joins Rana Mitter to discuss the British film...
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Night Waves - Constitutions and press regulation
As Zimbabwe votes in favour of a new constitution, Anne McElvoy is joined by Albie to...
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Night Waves - Conor McPherson
Matthew Sweet talks to Conor McPherson about his new play The Night Alive, working his...
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Night Waves - Compassion
Does compassion inhibit rational political debate? To discuss, Philip Dodd is joined 3...
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Night Waves - Clive James
Matthew Sweet talks to award-winning director Jane Campion about her new TV drama Top...
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Night Waves - Claire Messud
With Anne McElvoy, including an interview with the best-selling american novelist her...
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Night Waves - China's Silent Army
Rana Mitter & Susannah Clapp review a new production of Simon Gray's Quartermaine's...
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Night Waves - China Growth
What will China's economy look like in ten years' time? Liam Byrne an MP, is also a he...
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Night Waves - Childhood
Matthew Sweet examines our current and past attitudes to childhood and asks whether is...
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Night Waves - Chagall Reviewed
Alex Harris and Anne McElvoy review the latest Marc Chagall exhibition at the Tate...
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Night Waves - Cate Blanchett, The Ugly Renaissance
Actress Cate Blanchett joins Samira Ahmed to discuss her role in Woody Allen's latest...
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Night Waves - Captain Phillips, David Thomson, The Events
Tom Hanks stars as Captain Phillips in the new film from Paul Greengrass; writer Kevin...
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Night Waves - Camp
Matthew Sweet is joined by writer, Mark Ravenhill and literary critic, Sos Eltis to -...
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Night Waves - Britten 100, Theatre Uncut, John F Kennedy
With the return of the Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season, Anne McElvoy is joined by and...
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Night Waves - British Social Realism in Film
This Night Waves special explores ‘kitchen sink realism’, the cultural movement to...
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Night Waves - British Landscape
How should we appreciate the land around us? Tonight's Night Waves is devoted to a on...
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Night Waves - Boris Johnson
In conversation with Anne McElvoy, Boris Johnson discusses leadership ambitions, what...
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Night Waves - Booker Prize 2013 & Patrick Leigh Fermor
Rana Mitter assesses the shortlist for this year's Booker prize and speaks to nominee...
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Night Waves - Black Nativity
Matthew Sweet has a first night review from Susannah Clapp of Jude Law as Henry V by...
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Night Waves - Biotechnology
Philip Dodd talks to psychologist Bertolt Meyer, the model for the world's first human...
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Night Waves - Billy Liar
50 years since 'Billy Liar' was released Samira Ahmed talks to one of the film’s and...
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Night Waves - Billy Budd
Philip Dodd talks to Gerard Lemos, the author of The End of the Chinese Dream: why the...
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Night Waves - Bill Viola
Philip Dodd talks to internationally renowned video artist Bill Viola about his latest...
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Night Waves - Big Business
Has "business become a dirty word?" Stefan Stern and Linda Yueh join Samira Ahmed to...
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Night Waves - Bernard Rose, Public Inquiries, TB, Mughal India
Bernard Rose, whose new film Boxing Day is a modern rework of Tolstoy’s Master and...
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Night Waves - Bauhaus
Rana Mitter presents with a review of the new Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican and a...
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Night Waves - Baroque Spring
Rana Mitter hosts a special edition of Night Waves as part of Radio 3’s Baroque a to...
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Night Waves - Artificial Intelligence
Matthew Sweet speaks to acclaimed director Michael Grandage whose theatre company with...
