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 - Nicholas Hytner

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 Apr 201344min

Night Waves - Mohsin Hamid

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 Mar 201345min

Night Waves - James Wood

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 Mar 201344min

Night Waves - Constitutions and press regulation

Night Waves - Constitutions and press regulation

As Zimbabwe votes in favour of a new constitution, Anne McElvoy is joined by Albie Sachs, journalist Simon Jenkins human rights lawyer Chibli Mallat to examine whether national constitutions aid or im...

22 Mar 201344min

Night Waves - Baroque Spring

Night Waves - Baroque Spring

Rana Mitter hosts a special edition of Night Waves as part of Radio 3’s Baroque Spring season, including a visit to Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland. Joined by artists and designers, Rana explore...

21 Mar 201345min

Night Waves - Noam Chomsky

Night Waves - Noam Chomsky

Philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky joins Philip Dodd for an extended conversation on American individualism, the role of reason, and a life spent holding authority to account. And Philip meet the M...

20 Mar 201346min

Night Waves - Javier Marias

Night Waves - Javier Marias

Matthew Sweet talks to the Spanish novelist Javier Marias about his new book 'The Infatuations'. Night Waves takes stock of the man who sold the world as a new exhibition 'David Bowie is....' gets set...

19 Mar 201346min

Night Waves - Aleksandar Hemon

Night Waves - Aleksandar Hemon

Anne McElvoy talks to Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-born writer who some have been comparing to Nabokov and Conrad, about his newest book which is his first venture into non-fiction. Jonathan Jones re...

15 Mar 201345min

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