Night Waves - The Girl
Matthew Sweet discusses The Girl, a new film about Alfred Hitchcock’s vexed relationship with Tippi Hedren, with the leading lady herself and actor Toby Jones. We celebrate the centenary of Tarzan wit...
19 Dec 201244min
Night Waves - Ang Lee & Angels
Anne McElvoy talks to the director Ang Lee about his latest film The Life of Pi. Susannah Clapp reviews August Strindberg's play The Dance of Death which has a new adaptation by Conor McPherson. Polis...
18 Dec 201243min
Free Thinking 2012 - Lindsay Johns
Columnist and youth worker Lindsay Johns argues that we should stop listening to the young, in a talk recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival presented by Rana Mitter. He explains that we need to...
13 Dec 201243min
Night Waves - The Nation State
How relevant is the Nation-State in today's world? Philip Dodd debates the future of the Nation -State with political commentator Will Hutton, New Generation Thinker Adriana Sinclair, Turkish novelist...
13 Dec 201244min
Night Waves - International Review
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme and is joined by two novelists, from China, Xiaolu Guo, and from Poland, A.M. Bakalar and also by the Cairo-based Middle East af...
12 Dec 201244min
Night Waves - English landscape painting
Constable, Gainsborough and Turner, the three towering figures of English landscape painting, have their artwork showcased in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy – Anne McElvoy is joined by art crit...
11 Dec 201243min
Free Thinking 2012 - Colm Tóibín
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers, whose books explore issues such as Catholicism, immigration and homosexuality. His 2009 novel Brooklyn won the Costa novel of the Year, and his latest T...
6 Dec 201243min
Night Waves - Artificial Intelligence
Matthew Sweet speaks to acclaimed director Michael Grandage whose theatre company launches with a new production of Peter Nichols's celebrated play Privates on Parade. As a new centre in Cambridge is ...
6 Dec 201245min
