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Arts & Ideas Episodes

  1. Night Waves - Antony Gormley

    Matthew Sweet talks to Antony Gormley about his gigantic new sculpture Model.

  2. Night Waves - Antigone & Elizabethans

    Are we living in a second Elizabethan era? Juliet Gardiner, Stephen Haseler, Vernon to...

  3. Night Waves - Anish Kapoor

    Sculptor Anish Kapoor joins Samira Ahmed to discuss his new exhibition at London's...

  4. Night Waves - Ang Lee & Angels

    Anne McElvoy talks to the director Ang Lee about his latest film The Life of Pi.

  5. Night Waves - Andro Linklater

    Samira Ahmed talks to Andro Linklater whose new book Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die...

  6. Night Waves - Andrew Soloman

    Geoffrey Robertson QC joins Anne McElvoy to pay tribute to American philosopher and on...

  7. Night Waves - Anarcho-Capitalists

    As extreme libertarian thought is on the rise in right-wing politics, Anne McElvoy is...

  8. Night Waves - Amy Tan, Strange Blooms, François Mitterrand

    Bestselling writer Amy Tan joins Anne McElvoy to discuss her new novel, The Valley of...

  9. Night Waves - Amit Chaudhuri

    Novelist, poet and musician Amit Chaudhuri joins Samira Ahmed to discuss his latest on...

  10. Night Waves - American Psycho

    Susannah Clapp and Cleo Van Velsen join Anne McElvoy to review the musical stage of...

  11. Night Waves - Amartya Sen

    Philip Dodd talks to the Nobel prize winning economist, Amartya Sen in the concluding...

  12. Night Waves - Aleksandar Hemon

    Anne McElvoy talks to Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-born writer who some have been to...

  13. Night Waves - A Life Of Galileo 12 Feb

    Mark Ravenhill on translating Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo; the value of the is...

  14. Night Waves Peter Carey, Museums, Daniel Everett

    Rana Mitter talks to the Australian writer Peter Carey about his new novel The of...

  15. Night Waves

    We ask does the West really understand India? Director Peter Kosminsky discusses his...

  16. Niall Ferguson, Joanna Hogg & Tom Hiddleston

    Niall Ferguson talks about his new series, Civilisation and the importance of 'killer...

  17. New Thinking: Writing the NHS

    Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing

  18. New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness

    The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan/a novel about a Lebanese boy wanting to be an astronaut

  19. New Thinking: Work and protest

    From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911

  20. New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality

    Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan and Sarah Ellis are pushing the VR envelope

  21. New Thinking: women and football

    Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football

  22. New Thinking: Waiting

    What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?

  23. New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities

    Hidden LGBTQ+ histories in Northern Ireland and queer cinema in contemporary China

  24. New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project

    From digging for bones to the connection between bear baiting and Elizabethan theatre

  25. New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories

    A look at changing attitudes about sportswomen, once dubbed unfeminine, & LGBT athletes

  26. New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language

    From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs

  27. New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany

    Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dancefloors

  28. New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time

    Producer Kat Feavers & house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen on preparing the TV show

  29. New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021

    Prize winning films about migration, autism, Colombians, farming and children born of war

  30. New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture

    Kathleen Collins’ film scripts and women sculptors working in wax

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