Night Waves: Margaret Thatcher
Since her death on the 8th April, Baroness Thatcher has been lauded as the greatest peace-time Prime Minister of the 20th century, but also criticised as the most divisive politician of a generation. ...
12 Apr 201345min
Night Waves - Oliver Stone
Samira Ahmed talks to American film director Oliver Stone about his documentary miniseries which uses new archive material and little known documents to explore an unconventional account of events tha...
11 Apr 201345min
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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 201344min
