Arts & Ideas Podcast
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives 鈥� looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
Episodes to download
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Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
Wed 6 Apr 2022
Shahidha Bari with Ian Kelly, Sophie Coulombeau, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Hannah Greig
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New Generation Thinkers 2022
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Confronting the man who jilted you is the plot of this 1960s Argentine expressionist film
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Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 film that made Bruce Lee an international star
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After Dark Festival: Dark Places
Fri 25 Mar 2022
A poet, crime writer, theologian & marine biologist join Matthew Sweet to explore darkness
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After Dark Festival: Equinox
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Matthew Sweet looks for meaning in the moment when the length of day and night is equal.
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John Maynard Keynes
Tue 22 Mar 2022
From HM Treasury to Versailles and Bloomsbury: a look at the life and legacy of JM Keynes
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Vikings
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to scholars with new insights on the Viking period
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The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture
Wed 16 Mar 2022
How an East German creative writing class fought the cold war: was their poetry any good?
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Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Lauren Working explores the Cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles
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Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing
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Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes
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Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us
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Fashion Stories: Body Armour
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies
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Blackmail & Shame
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film
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New Thinking: Women鈥檚 history
Wed 9 Mar 2022
The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts
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New Thinking: Women鈥檚 history
Tue 8 Mar 2022
The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts
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Sisters
Sun 6 Mar 2022
The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Lucy Holland and Shahidha Bari
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The Generation Gap
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoy茅 talk family histories with Matthew Sweet
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The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
Wed 2 Mar 2022
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.
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Climate change, nature and art
Wed 2 Mar 2022
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.
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Perfecting The Body
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Harry Parker & Xine Yao discuss
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New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets
Thu 24 Feb 2022
A computer game for cystic fibrosis patients to improve breathing
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Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about friends in an age of upheaval
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Artists' models and fame
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Egon Schiele's women, Whistler's woman in white, new radio ballads : Shahidha Bari hosts.
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Hitchhiking
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Matthew Sweet and guests consider hitchiking in culture and around the globe.
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China, Freud, war and sci fi
Wed 16 Feb 2022
From AI & fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
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Stonehenge history
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths
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Existential Risk
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests
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Whale watching
Wed 9 Feb 2022
Rana Mitter dives into the world of whales and examines our relationship to marine life.
