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.

Episoder(2000)

Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell

Sound of Cinema - Carter Burwell

Carter Burwell is famed for scoring the films of the iconic Coen Brothers, from 1984's Blood Simple to Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men; they have one of the longes...

25 Sep 201319min

Sound of Cinema - James Horner

Sound of Cinema - James Horner

As part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, Tom Service talks to ten-time Academy Award nominee James Horner. Horner was born in Los Angeles but spent his early years in London and studied at the Roy...

25 Sep 201319min

Sound of Cinema - Ken Loach and George Fenton

Sound of Cinema - Ken Loach and George Fenton

Acclaimed director Ken Loach and composer George Fenton have collaborated on fourteen films together in the last two decades. Beginning in 1994 with Ladybird Ladybird, they have worked together on tit...

25 Sep 201321min

Night Waves - Loyalty & Shunga

Night Waves - Loyalty & Shunga

In the light of recent revelations about feuding in the Labour party does it make sense to demand or even expect loyalty from people in public life? Two former newspaper editors, Andreas Whittam Smith...

25 Sep 201345min

Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo

Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo

In the first of three special programmes from ZSL London Zoo, Matthew Sweet examines the Zoo as cultural institution. Matthew discusses the Zoo's current incarnation as conservation centre with ZSL's ...

24 Sep 201343min

Night Waves - The Innocents

Night Waves - The Innocents

A Landmark edition recorded in front of an audience at the British Film Institute as part of the Sound of Cinema season: Matthew Sweet is joined by the film's stars Peter Wyngarde and Clytie Jessop, p...

19 Sep 201343min

Night Waves - Rory Kinnear

Night Waves - Rory Kinnear

Actor Rory Kinnear, currently playing Iago at the National Theatre, discusses the challenges of writing his first play. Samira Ahmed talks to the Australian Art exhibition curator at The RA and to Edm...

19 Sep 201344min

Night Waves - Margaret Atwood

Night Waves - Margaret Atwood

Anne McElvoy talks to celebrated Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood whose latest novel MaddAddam competes her dystopian trilogy that began a decade ago with Oryx and Crake and continued six years later...

17 Sep 201340min

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