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.
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Romanian history and literature
Tue 23 Nov 2021
Novelists Mircea C膬rt膬rescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
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New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration
Fri 19 Nov 2021
From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.
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Faking It and Trompe-l'oeil
Fri 19 Nov 2021
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
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Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Ahead of a performance at the London Jazz Festival, what history underpins the album?
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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Tue 16 Nov 2021
One of the key French Existentialists of the 1950s, how does de Beauvoir read today?
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New Thinking: Being Human 2021
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Research into covid comics, codes in Dickens, projecting books onto hospital ceilings.
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Green Thinking: Climate Justice
Wed 10 Nov 2021
What we learn from involving communities experiencing the sharp end of climate change.
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Green Thinking: Climate and Refugees
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Is climate change really causing people to flee their homes?
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The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2021
Tue 9 Nov 2021
How do we define a war? Anne McElvoy and guests look at how language changes attitudes.
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Green Thinking: Future of 蜜芽传媒
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Around 60% of UK waste comes from the construction sector. How can we tackle this?
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God's Body
Fri 5 Nov 2021
Matthew Sweet is joined by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Mark Vernon and Hetta Howes
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Green Thinking: Activism and Young People
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Glasgow and Birmingham projects to help young people express their experiences.
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Caesar, Hogarth and images of power
Wed 3 Nov 2021
Rana Mitter talks to Professor Mary Beard, artist Ali Cherri and looks at Hogarth's art.
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Oceans, art and pacific poetry
Tue 2 Nov 2021
From coral reef sculptures to creation sagas of Australia and attitudes to land and sea.
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Time
Fri 29 Oct 2021
As the clocks go back, Matthew Sweet and guests host a party for time travellers
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Green Thinking: Media
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Do photos of polar bears or recycling bins make us care more about the climate emergency?
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New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Digging into the music of composers Joseph Boulogne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry
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Celebrating Buchi Emecheta
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Shahidha Bari leads a discussion of Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017).
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Green Thinking: Trees
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Is a Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winner on to a new sustainable energy source?
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Twilight
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish
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Green Thinking: Sustainable Development
Mon 25 Oct 2021
How can mangos, cocoa husks and rice be turned into fuel and impact climate change?
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The Language of Flowers
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Rebecca Solnit's book Orwell's Roses explores his interest in gardening
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Green Thinking: History of climate summits
Thu 21 Oct 2021
How could meetings like COP and the targets they set be organised differently ?
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Rationality & Tradition
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Steven Pinker on Rationality and Tim Stanley on Tradition - Anne McElvoy hosts
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Green Thinking: Landscapes
Wed 20 Oct 2021
How can understanding the history of landscape help planners, policies and people?
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New Thinking: Black British Theatre. An Afro-Cuban star
Tue 19 Oct 2021
From a Black Juliet in the 18th century to Ira Aldridge鈥檚 daughter Amanda + Rita Montaner
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Green Thinking: how we see nature
Fri 15 Oct 2021
How can we give nature a louder voice in climate change discussions?
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