Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.
BBC Head of News, James Harding, offers his verdict of a new stage version of Network, starring Bryan Cranston. Philosopher, Gloria Origgi, considers the importance of reputation in the digital age. P...
15 Nov 201744min
Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle
‘There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today… that is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.’ The words of Martin Luther King in 1967 when he vis...
15 Nov 201744min
Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik in conversation with Anne McElvoy, recorded with an audience at Pushkin House.Pushkin House has commissioned a pavilion on Bloomsbury Square...
13 Nov 201744min
Landmark – Man with a Movie Camera
"The greatest documentary of all time"? Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh join Matthew Sweet to discuss Dziga Vertov's 1929 film, Man with a Movie Camera, which w...
9 Nov 201746min
Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Nobel prize winner Svetlana Alexeivich on the Soviet Woman's Stories of World War II and why they did not want them published; Stephen Kotkin with Volume II of his biograph of Joseph Stalin explores t...
8 Nov 201744min
The pros and cons of Swearing.
Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, poet and journalist Bridget Minamore and author and science writer Dr Emma Byrne discuss with Matthew Sweet swearing on stage, in pain and protest and ...
3 Nov 201745min
Benjamin Britten and Radio
David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with Philip Dodd and an audience at Aldeburgh in a discussion exploring Britten’s relationship with radio in Britain and in America, with his su...
1 Nov 201744min
Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.
What does Gulliver's Travels say to us now? Satirical cartoonist Martin Rowson and Daniel Cook from the University of Dundee assess the legacy of Swift's best-known work. And Monochrome exhibition co-...
31 Okt 201743min
