Arts and Ideas
By BBC Radio 3
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The best of BBC Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas programme Night Waves - featuring in-depth interviews with artists, scientists and public figures, vociferous debates, and reviews of the latest cultural events. Night Waves is broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Mon - Thursday at 10pm
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R3Arts: Lawrence Durrell, Kate Grenville, Cullen Murphy, Gene Sharp | Philip Dodd talks to Cullen Murphy about his new book, God's Jury. Matthew Sweet takes a new look at Lawrence Durrell. And Anne McElvoy talks to Kate Grenville about her books on Australian Colonialism and also interviews Gene Sharp about non-violent protests. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Trial of Ubu, David Scheffer & The Hajj | Matthew Sweet talks to David Scheffer, architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunal and discusses the Hajj with film-maker Navid Ahktar and Venetia Porter curator at The British Museum. Also Anne McElvoy discusses the play, Trial of Ubu with theatre critic Susannah Clapp. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics | Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also discusses the writer WG Sebald with cultural historian Kevin Jackson and the writer and translator Amanda Hopkinson. Susannah Clapp and film historian Ian Christie came into the studio to talk about Coriolanus - the first big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s political power play. And Anne McElvoy talks to Paul Mason about his book ‘Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Population Growth | Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Anne McElvoy and guests discuss mega-cities, sustainability and the ethics of living together. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Scientific Breakthroughs | Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Anne McElvoy asks to what extent are science and medicine shaping our lives and what breakthroughs are shaping the future? | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Greed | Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Philip Dodd and guests look at greed in its many forms, accompanied Peter Marinker reading Falstaff, Faustus and others. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Artistic Endeavours | Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Matthew Sweet and guests attempt to define the zeitgeist via the cultural artefacts and moments of 2011. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens | In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel, with interviews, reviews and analysis from the Night Waves archives. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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International Review: | Matthew Sweet entertains guests from Ghana, Italy, India and Egypt to discuss Saladin, a new book by Anne-Marie Eddé, the legacy of the Crusades, Nanni Moretti's latest film We have a Pope and Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Politics Dead? | As Europe struggles to manage the current financial crisis we are seeing un-elected technocrats replace populist leaders and ratings agencies seemingly wielding increasing power. Philip Dodd and guests discuss whether the pursuit of economic stability is downgrading democracy. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Were the Luddites Right? | Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their 200th anniversary. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Jencks | Landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled Reclaiming the Universe. Jencks argues that understanding the universe is too important to be left to scientists and theologians, and wants us to connect to pre-historic ideas about the cosmos, present in monuments such as Stonehenge. | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain. Teenagers often act on impulse, are lazy, emotional and get into trouble with the police and parents. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a leading expert on teenage brains. Using recent research about the radical changes taking place in the adolescent brain, she argues it's time to rethink our attitudes towards youth and the place of teenagers in society. | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susie Orbach | Psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change. Susie is Britain's most high-profile pyschotherapist, whose book Fat is a Feminist Issue revolutionised the way we understand our bodies. She co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre, has been a consultant for The World Bank and NHS, and is an advocate for body diversity and emotional literacy. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life | How will our world change as traditional energy supplies shrink and climate change forces us to use less fossil fuels? Should we return to a locally-focused pre-modern lifestyle where travel is a luxury for the few, will conflict over declining resources destabilise the globe, or will science save the day? | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aditya Chakrabortty | Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society. Over the past 30 years governments of every political hue have promised that great prizes will follow economic change, whilst parts of society have been effectively written off. So argues Aditya Chakrabortty, economics leader writer at The Guardian. He believes even the newly fashionable zeal for a manufacturing revival will do little to help and calls for a radical solution. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can We Stop the Mania for Change? | Philip Dodd chairs a debate on the obsession with change, at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. Panel includes the film-maker Molly Dineen and the Rev Dr Giles Fraser. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to Improve | Julian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and genetic selection at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linda Colley | Leading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how we have dealt with periods of dramatic change in the past and how history can help us to understand change today. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Germaine Greer | Germaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Fong | Kevin Fong, who presents BBC2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, gives a talk at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011calling for a second Space Age. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Foreign Secretary William Hague | William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's role in this transforming world order. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rev Dr Giles Fraser | Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011 on the crisis of commitment in our society. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francis Wells | One of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the heart, his work at the cutting-edge of surgery, and his fascination with Da Vinci at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts:Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with a lecture on how the internet will continue to radically change our world | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Chris Patten | The full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Governor and new chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art | David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet. Philip Dodd asks whether we're living through a golden age of science. And Rana Mitter looks at the architects of the Russian Revolution with Richard Cork and Clementine Cecil. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of Novelists | Philip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world of famous writers. Matthew Sweet discusses the place of the village in the British psyche and Juliet Gardiner reviews the play Jumpy. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy | This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save or spend? Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers discusses self-deception with Matthew Sweet. Illustrator Quentin Blake tells Rana about his latest work for hospitals. And poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy talks to Anne McElvoy about bees. | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human | Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris. Philip Dodd reviews a new biography of the writer Charles Dickens. Anne McElvoy looks at how the line between humanity and technology is becoming increasingly blurred and historian Joanna Bourke tells Matthew Sweet What it Means to be Human. | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire | Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current banking crisis. Critic Susannah Clapp reviews King Lear, starring Tim Pigott-Smith. And Philip Dodd is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng and Richard Gott to discuss their views on the British Empire. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Lars von Trier Special | In this special edition of the podcast, Matthew Sweet's full interview with the Danish director Lars von Trier, discussing his long and varied career. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts:Private Eye,Grief,Imran Khan,Thomas Friedman | Anne McElvoy talks to Adam Macqueen as Private Eye turns 50. Matthew Sweet discusses Mike Leigh's new play Grief and talks to Imran Khan anout his ambition to lead Pakistan and Philip Dodd in conversation with Gideon Rachman, Anatole Lieven and Pullitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman - who has co-written a book with the title That Used to Be US: What Went Wrong With America and How It Can Come Back. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentary | Rana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to critic David D’Arcy about Andrew Rossi's documentary film Page One and to Anna Funder about her new novel All that I Am. And a series of screenwriter’s lectures at BAFTA and the British Film Institute is celebrating the importance of screenwriters and providing a forum in which they can’t have credit for their work stolen by the director. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 12 September 2011 | Poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in the first ever Proms Poetry competition and Rabbi Julia Neuberger explores the piano’s literary life across the ages in conversation with Anne McElvoy, | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 5 September 2011 | Biographer John Carey and author Meg Rosoff join Ian McMillan to discuss one of Britain's greatest post-war novelists - William Golding. And acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little completes our series of events in which musicians from this year’s Proms season introduce and discuss their favourite works of fiction and poetry. | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 2 September 2011 | The death of Prince Albert 150 years ago inspired the creation of the home of the Proms - the Royal Albert Hall. Historians Kate Williams and Dan Cruickshank join Matthew Sweet to reassess the Prince Consort and his legacy "the Albertopolis". And cellist Matthew Barley is the third guest in a four-part Proms Plus series in which musicians from this year's Proms season introduce their favourite works of fiction and poetry. Susan Hitch hosts. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Proms Plus Literary: Dante and Andrew Litton | Historical novelist Sarah Dunant and Margaret Keane, author of ‘Inferno’, discuss Dante’s Divine Comedy. Leading American conductor Andrew Litton introduces a personal choice of readings from their favourite fiction and poetry. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 17 August 2011 | Matthew Sweet talks to Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar winning screenwriter of The Pianist and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Neil Brand, doyen of silent film pianists, discussing the role of music in film â from The Keystone Kops to indie films. Matthew also talks to comedians Natalie Haynes and Steve Punt to unveil and perform their favourite humorous writing from down the ages and asks what makes literary comic gold? | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 11 August 2011 | Tariq Ali and Daniel Karlin discuss the writer Kipling and authors Val McDermid and Louise Welsh explore the explosion in Scandinavian crime writing with Rana Mitter. | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 3 August 2011 | Playwright Mark Ravenhill and actor and writer Simon Callow discuss Faust with Matthew Sweet and Ian Mcmillan is in conversation with the conductor Robert Hollingworth about his favourite works of fiction and poetry. | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 25 July 2011 | Kate Mosse and Edmund de Waal discuss great French literary classics with Matthew Sweet, and Peggy Reynolds talks to Rana Mitter about the cello in literature, with musical illustrations. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arianna Huffington, Bertrand Tavernier & Hollywood portraiture | Arianna Huffington talks about the launch of her online newspaper, the Huffington Post, in the UK. Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier discusses his new historical drama set in the 16th century. Terry Charman and Kate Adie look at the Imperial War Museum in its 75th year. And a survey of Hollywood portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Light Fantastic, Raymond Tallis, Libya, New Generation Thinker | Highlights from a Night Waves special as part of the Light Fantastic Festival weekend. Raymond Tallis and Armand Leroi discuss Raymond's new book, Aping Mankind. Paul Cartledge looks at the cultural collateral damage caused by military action against Gadaffi. New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge on cultural responses to genocide memorial sites in Rwanda. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts:Margaret Drabble, Emma Rothschild ,Stanley Spencer exhibition and Authenticity and the Internet | Nightwaves looks at the subject of internet anonymity, visits a new exhibition of work by Stanley Spencer in Warwickshire, and empire, enlightenment, and emotion – all come together in an eighteenth-century Scottish townhouse in a new book from historian Emma Rothschild | 6/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Arundhati Roy, Siddharta Deb and Retromania | Acclaimed novelists Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb look at India as an emerging superpower. Kevin Macdonald discusses his film made up of footage from ordinary people. American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney explains why he wrote a play about a PR company. And is Retromania really that new? | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, Senna | Sherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships. Candace Allen reviews an exhibition of photographs, postcards and journalism of US lynchings. Director Asif Kapadia discusses his award-winning documentary about the controversial racing driver Ayrton Senna. A discussion about the changing role of Amnesty International. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Nightwaves | Anne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book which explores the resurgence of the Muslim veil and to three veteran war reporters who feature in a new Imperial War Museum North exhibition about the correspondent's life behind the frontline and the changing nature of war reporting. With Kate Adie, Michael Nicholson and Eric Thirer. As London’s Jewish Museum launches its Entertaining the Nation exhibition, Matthew is joined by actress and comedian Maureen Lipman and historian David Ceserani to reflect on the Jewish contribution to British entertainment and as Bob Dylan turns 70, Anne discovers why his recent work still has meaning from singer Barb Jungr and English academic, Daniel Karlin. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon | Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders. Susannah Clapp on immersive theatre. And interview with Vidal Sassoon. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: 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 from Chad and a celebration of the work of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of Iran | Molly Dineen discusses her first collection of documentaries on DVD. Brian Christian talks about his book, The Most Human Human. A discussion on Bin Laden. Abbas Milani on his biography of the Shah of Iran. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan | Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose series. Anatol Lieven discusses his new book, Pakistan, A Hard Country. Max Clifford is on the panel of guests talking about Super Injunctions and we talk about the world of the Luddite | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: The Avengers | Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of The Avengers, 50 years after its first transmission. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Michel Sheen, Cameron Mackintosh & Wim Wenders | Michael Sheen talks about his role in the Passion Play in his home town of Port Talbot. Cameron Mackintosh discusses his latest musical, Betty Blue Eyes. Wim Wenders on his filmic ode to Pina Bausch and Matthew Sweet visits the new Turner Contemporary in Margate. | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Aie Weiwei, the value of Arts & All About Love | Isabel Hilton on the artist Ai Weiwei and his recent problems with the Chinese state. Critic Louisa Buck reviews an exhibition of women war artists at the Imperial War Musuem. Philip Dodd and guests discuss whether the arts really do matter and Lisa Appignanesi talks about her new book All About Love. | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Jim Loach, Victorian Prostitutes, Mrs. Dalloway | An interview with director Jim Loach on his film Oranges and Sunshine about child-deportation; the Victorian Prostitute as a character in fiction discussed by Lesley Hall and DJ Taylor; and an extract from the Night Waves Landmark edition on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys | A look at Butlins at 75 with Roy Hudd and Martin Parr, an interview with Werner Herzog, novelist Jennifer Egan on her new book, and the collaboration between the Pet Shop Boys and choreographer Javier de Frutos. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Italy, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, existence | A panel of guests discuss the state of Italy, as the country marks 150 years of unification. David Baddiel on his latest novel. Chemist Peter Atkins explores great questions of existence. And Frank Skinner talks about his comedy career. | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Rattigan, Arab world, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Malloch-Brown | Trevor Nunn on reviving Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. What does it mean to be an Arab? Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her new memoir. Former UN Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown on his new book. | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Niall Ferguson, Joanna Hogg & Tom Hiddleston | Niall Ferguson talks about his new series, Civilisation and the importance of 'killer apps. Joanna Hogg talks about her latest film Archipelago and is joined by the leading man Tom Hiddleston. The poet Michael Longley talks about his latest collection of poems and we discuss the apparent enthusiasm for Nazi ideology in India. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade | Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the differing accounts of Chinese and British histories, Roger McGough and Ian Sinclair review the new film Howl, and an interview with Michael Grade. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: 14 April 11: Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee | Edna O'Brien talks to Philip Dodd about her new book Saints & Sinners. Matthew Sweet talks to Mark Henderson, the kidnapping victim who has made a documentary about his return to his place of capture. Matthew also discusses a new biography of Humphrey Bogart. And Anne McElvoy and guests discuss modern Gypsy culture. | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: 07 Feb: David Chipperfield & Colin Thubron | Travel writer Colin Thubron talks about his journey of discovery through Tibet. Architect David Chipperfield on his latest buildings, Sarah Dunant reviews the film of Never Let Me Go and Matthew Sweet looks at the history of the Fig Leaf. | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Night Waves 31 Jan 11 | We ask does the West really understand India? Director Peter Kosminsky discusses his new TV drama The Promise. We review the film version of Brighton Rock and hear why the tenth parallel is so significant to Muslims and Christians. | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller | We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German choreographer, director, performer and filmmaker, Antonia Baehr. Philosopher John Gray on his new book, The Immortalisation Commission. Interview with artist Susan Hiller. | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley | We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 years in an American prison. Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Rudyard Kipling in the 75th year of his death and Philip Dodd talks to the philosopher Mary Midgley | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self | Directors Danny Boyle and Nev Schulman on their latest films; psychotherapist Susie Orbach and panel on 'just desserts'; interview with Hedge Fund millionaire David Harding; writer Will Self on the idea of Family Britain. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech | Director Peter Weir talks about his new film, The Way Back. Chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov about life after chess. A discussion about The King's Speech and our attitudes on stammering and a debate about the impact global religion will have on future politics. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet | Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's dilemmas during WWII; Ballet - on the rise or in demise? And which is more powerful, the street or the internet? | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science | Anne Enright discusses a new anthology on Irish short stories, film critic David Thompson on his new Dictionary of Film. Another debate from the Free Thinking Festival on possessions and Climate Science. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd | Lord Ian Blair talks about violence and human behaviour; Pat Barker discusses her novels charting World War I, political satirist PJ O'Rourke on his new book, 'Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards' and biographer Michael Holroyd talks about why his latest book is probably his last. | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker | This week, TV designer Kevin McCloud talks about shopping and festival goers speed date with a thinker as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Gateshead. And in London, plain speaking poet Craig Raine and the anthropologist who meets terrorists. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Free Thinking | This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. We debate the nature of happiness, comedy versus tragedy and actress Fiona Shaw talks about the roles that have informed her work. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead' at the British Museum; Richard Cohen talks to Philip Dodd about his new book, 'Chasing the Sun' and Ian Morris discusses his new book, Why the West Rules which is also reveiwed by the historian Joanna Bourke. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Amanda Foreman, Fintan O'Toole & Alasdair Gray | The Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole talks to Philip Dodd. Amanda Foreman discusses her new book based on the relationship between Britain and America during the American Civil War. Rana Mitter and guests explore how and why we smile and author and artist Alasdair Gray discusses Kafa and Michaelangelo | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft | Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip Larkin to his friend and lover of 40 years, Monica Jones. Dame Mary Warnock talks to Anne McElvoy about assisted dying and Rana Mitter talks to historian Patrick Wright about his book on Anglo-Chinese relations. And we look at the work of the Edwardian writer, H P Lovecraft. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson | Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes and philosopher Jonathan Ree reconstruct the life of Socrates. Aaron Sorkin talks about his new blockbuster film about Facebook and the winner of this year’s Man Booker prize, Howard Jacobson. | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd | Jonathan Franzen talks about his new book Freedom. We discuss the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa. The Jordanian sculptor Mona Saudi talks about her new exhibition and Peter Ackroyd on his new book, The English Ghost. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English | In the 200th year of Mrs Gaskell's birth, Jenny Uglow and Katheryn Hughes discuss her work. Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd about his latest book, The Empty Family. We review Paul Gaugin at Tate Modern and discuss the use of 'Correct English' with Simon Heffer and Michael Rosen | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Progression, Diaghilev & John Pawson | The use of the word 'Progression' in politics is discussed with Peter Hitchens, Kitty Ussher & Peter Catterall. The architect John Pawson on his retrospective at the London Design Museum and the choreographer Siobhan Davies reviews a new exhibition of Sergei Diaghilev at the V&A in London | 10/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George | Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of The Blitz, the historian, Juliet Gardener, talks about its impact on 21st Century culture. And Roy Hattersley who has written a new biography of David Lloyd George is joined by Shirley Williams to ask what lessons today’s coalition government can be learned from the one that he led in peacetime. | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Literary Festival | Ian McMillan discusses the story of Hansel and Gretal and its continuing relevance to children today and he also explores the relationship between poetry and music | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R3Arts: Proms Literary Festival | A celebration of Schiller's Ode to Joy sung by Billy Bragg. Exploring the genius of Czech writing including Franz Kafka. | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 83 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Serious cultural discussions, sometimes hard-hitting.
I suspect that the other reviewers haven't grown up listening to British radio, so perhaps are not used to the cut and thrust of these interviews which might seem unnerving, but boring they certainly are not, especially when the subject is something or someone that interests you already. A rare thing in any media, it doesn't try and popularise, and assumes a certain cultural knowledge from the audience, which might frighten many people off. It is serious arts and culture discussions for people who take such things seriously.
Excellent, informative and enjoyable
Great roundtable discussion on eclectic subjects, presented well. Recommended.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
If you like to listen to a bunch of know it alls chat about random issues, this is the podcast for you. Itunes down-loaded this one twice for me as the newest episode was the same as the old one and then I managed to not make it all the way through it the first times I listen to it, because not only is it boring, but it's got nothing it do with art, and so I had to listen to some of it four times! Sheesh! They should call it Radio 3 Farts Talk.
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