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)

Night Waves - Lowry

Night Waves - Lowry

Philip Dodd and Susan Hitch review a new production of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana at the ROH. As a new academic journal of Porn Studies is announced Philip and guests discuss whether being morally ne...

25 Jun 201344min

Night Waves - David Edgar

Night Waves - David Edgar

Anne McElvoy talks to David Edgar about his new play 'If Only' which focuses on The Coalition Government. Composer Orlando Gough tells us about his role in a one-off-art event celebrating the UK's lon...

21 Jun 201345min

Night Waves - The Wasp Factory

Night Waves - The Wasp Factory

Philip Dodd goes to the V&A to speak to Hari Kunzru about his new work, and discusses manipulation of memory, and our anxieties about forgetting, with the actor Edward Petherbridge, the historical nov...

20 Jun 201344min

Free Thinking in the Summer

Free Thinking in the Summer

BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas hits the road this summer as it takes up residency at leading summer events across the country. Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the York Festival ...

18 Jun 201343min

Night Waves - Conor McPherson

Night Waves - Conor McPherson

Matthew Sweet talks to Conor McPherson about his new play The Night Alive, working with his own material as writer and director, violence on stage and his muses. On the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio'...

18 Jun 201344min

Night Waves - Neil Gaiman

Night Waves - Neil Gaiman

Anne McElvoy talks to Neil Gaiman, prolific award-winning author of novels for adults and children alike and writer for radio and television about new novel, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. Historia...

14 Jun 201345min

Night Waves - Joss Whedon

Night Waves - Joss Whedon

Samira Ahmed talks to Joss Whedon, creator of the cult TV hit Buffy The Vampire Slayer, whose new film is a modern dress version of Much Ado About Nothing. Marianne Elliott talks about her new product...

13 Jun 201344min

Night Waves - The Amen Corner

Night Waves - The Amen Corner

A first night review of the National Theatre's revival of James Baldwin's drama The Amen Corner, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Matthew Sweet along with Susannah Clapp and Lindsay Johns review. Are ...

12 Jun 201345min

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