Night Waves - Landmark: Rijksmuseum
Matthew Sweet visits Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch, which reopens to the public this month, following a decade of restoration.
10 Huhti 201344min
Night Waves - Landmarks: The Making of the English Working Class
Philip Dodd explores one of the classics of social history, The Making of the English Working Class by E P Thompson. Ground breaking and passionately engaged it changed the way we thought about the In...
9 Huhti 201344min
Night Waves - Diarmaid Macculloch
Church Historian Diarmaid Macculloch joins Anne McElvoy to discuss the role that silence has played in the development of Christianity. David Dewing, director of The Geffrye Museum, argues that the mu...
5 Huhti 201346min
Night Waves - Nostalgia and the NHS
Is nostalgia for an idea of the NHS is inhibiting clear-eyed debate? Samira Ahmed is joined by columnist Ian Birrell and campaigning GP Jonathon Tomlinson to discuss. Alexandra Harris reviews an exhi...
4 Huhti 201345min
Night Waves - History at school
What history should children learn and be able to contextualise? And what do they know? Rana Mitter enters the Great British History debate with the historian David Cannadine, Tristram Hunt MP, Sheila...
2 Huhti 201344min
Night Waves - Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner looks back at his time as the head of the National Theatre in London which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Professor Rosi Braidotti discusses her new book The Pos...
2 Huhti 201344min
Night Waves - Mohsin Hamid
Samira Ahmed talks to international best selling author Mohsin Hamid about his new novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Susan Aldworth and the editor of the magazine RawVision, John Maizels ex...
28 Maalis 201345min
Night Waves - James Wood
Matthew Sweet talks to acclaimed literary critic James Wood, visits an exhibition on Pompeii & Herculeneum and discusses the legacy of documentary maker Michael Grigsby. Plus the latest film by Franco...
27 Maalis 201344min
