Arts & Ideas

Arts & Ideas

Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.

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Kingship and ceremony

Kingship and ceremony

Luxury and Power is the title of a new British Museum exhibition focusing on the politics of display used by rulers in Persia and Greece. Ahead of the coronation, Anne McElvoy hears from the curator, ...

5 Touko 202345min

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) tackled inter-racial relationships. In the Heat of the Night won the Best Picture Oscar in 1967. For Love of Ivy (1968) satirised white liberal attitudes and treate...

4 Touko 202345min

Sound, conflict and central heating

Sound, conflict and central heating

Recordings in sub-zero temperatures and the hottest day on record have fed into the sound of Erland Cooper's latest composition. Ahead of a performance at the Barbican Centre, he discusses the way his...

2 Touko 202345min

Lady Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Fraser

From Mary Queen of Scots - about whom her mother was going to write until she intervened - to her most recent biography of Caroline Lamb, out in mid May, Lady Antonia Fraser has had a career publishin...

27 Huhti 202345min

Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

Music making, fashion and behaviour at court in the Georgian period are the focus of new research by Sophie Coulombeau, Mary-Jannet Leith and Lizzy Buckle. As Bridgerton launches a spin off series abo...

25 Huhti 202345min

New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day

New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day

From unboxing and influencers to circular fashion and a new artwork unveiled for Earth Day: New Generation Thinker Xine Yao from University College London hosts a conversation about sustainable fashio...

20 Huhti 202327min

Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint

As a new Tate exhibition of paintings puts the work of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint alongside modernist giant, Piet Mondrian. Both were painters fascinated by esoteric and occult ideas that became m...

20 Huhti 202345min

Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

Stevenson's swashbuckling Jacobite set novel has been translated into a play which is touring Scotland. Tartan and its history are on show at V&A Dundee, including a piece of tartan found in a peat bo...

19 Huhti 202345min

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