Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The Scottish writers whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th century conventions
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Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions
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Margaret Drabble, Emma Rothschild ,Stanley Spencer exhibition and Authenticity and the In
Nightwaves looks at the subject of internet anonymity, visits a new exhibition of work...
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Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
Sarah Goldsmith explores the C18th aristocratic craze for pumping iron
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Malcolm X, Diana Athill and Ai Wei Wei
An overview of the legacy of Malcolm X, Diana Athill on her short stories, a new film...
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Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd
Lord Ian Blair talks about violence and human behaviour; Pat Barker discusses her War...
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Light Fantastic, Raymond Tallis, Libya, New Generation Thinker
Highlights from a Night Waves special as part of the Light Fantastic Festival weekend.
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Lawrence Durrell, Kate Grenville, Cullen Murphy, Gene Sharp
Philip Dodd talks to Cullen Murphy about his new book, God's Jury. Matthew Sweet takes...
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Lars von Trier Special
In this special edition of the podcast, Matthew Sweet's full interview with the Danish...
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Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft
Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip to...
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Landmarks: Solaris
A celebration of one of the great landmarks of culture as Matthew Sweet talks to the...
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Landmarks: Alien
Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien and whether it's blend of...
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Land and soil politics
Jim Scown on the links between Goethe, George Eliot and the storming of the US Capitol
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Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing
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Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.
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Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker
This week, TV designer Kevin McCloud talks about shopping and festival goers speed a...
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Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd
Jonathan Franzen talks about his new book Freedom. We discuss the winner of this Nobel...
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John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower
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John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom
Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854
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Jim Loach, Victorian Prostitutes, Mrs. Dalloway
An interview with director Jim Loach on his film Oranges and Sunshine about the as a...
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Italy, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, existence
A panel of guests discuss the state of Italy, as the country marks 150 years of...
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Is Politics Dead?
As Europe struggles to manage the current financial crisis we are seeing un-elected...
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International Review
Matthew Sweet entertains guests from Ghana, Italy, India and Egypt to discuss Saladin,...
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In Conversation: Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)
Novelist Philip Roth talks to Philip Dodd about his life and work. (R3 Night Waves 2008)
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Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
Elsa Richardson on the diet guru who set up a Covent Garden café and sold health products.
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Green Thinking: Weather
What can we learn from how people responded to extreme weather events in the past?
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Green Thinking: Trees
Is a Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winner on to a new sustainable energy source?
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Green Thinking: Transport
The impact of walking to school, the energy use of electric cars and should we fly less?
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Green Thinking: Transport
The impact of rethinking school journeys, slow shipping and should we limit flying?
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Green Thinking: Sustainable Development
How can mangos, cocoa husks and rice be turned into fuel and impact climate change?
