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R3Arts: Francis Wells Updated: 2011-11-07 18:25:00 Description: One of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the heart, his work at the cutting-edge of surgery, and his fascination with Da Vinci at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts:Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Updated: 2011-11-07 17:59:00 Description: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with a lecture on how the internet will continue to radically change our world...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Chris Patten Updated: 2011-11-01 19:16:00 Description: The full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Govenor and new chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Chris Patten Updated: 2011-11-01 19:16:00 Description: The full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Governor and new chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts:David Attenborough,golden age of science,Soviet art Updated: 2011-11-01 18:35:00 Description: David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new BBC 1 Series Frozen Planet. Philip Dodd asks whether we're living through the golden age of science, and Richard Cork and Clementine Cecil take a closer look at the architects of the Russian Rev...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art Updated: 2011-11-01 18:35:00 Description: David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet. Philip Dodd asks whether we're living through a golden age of science. And Rana Mitter looks at the architects of the Russian Revolution with Richard Cork and Clementine...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of Novelists Updated: 2011-10-25 13:22:00 Description: Philip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world of famous writers. Matthew Sweet discusses the place of the village in the British psyche and Juliet Gardiner reviews the play Jumpy....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy Updated: 2011-10-17 20:12:00 Description: This week, in the face of a deepening economic crisis should we save or spend? Illustrator Quentin Blake describes his latest work for hospitals. Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy talks about bees and evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers discusses self-...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy Updated: 2011-10-17 20:12:00 Description: This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save or spend? Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers discusses self-deception with Matthew Sweet. Illustrator Quentin Blake tells Rana about his latest work for hospitals...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human Updated: 2011-10-11 10:26:00 Description: Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris. Philip Dodd reviews a new biography of the writer Charles Dickens. Anne McElvoy looks at how the line between humanity and technology is becoming increasingly blurred and h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire Updated: 2011-10-03 18:00:00 Description: Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current banking crisis. Critic Susannah Clapp reviews King Lear, starring Tim Pigott-Smith. And Philip Dodd is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng and Richard Gott to discuss their vi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Lars von Trier Special Updated: 2011-10-03 16:37:00 Description: In this special edition of the podcast, Matthew Sweet's full interview with the Danish director Lars von Trier, discussing his long and varied career....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts:Private Eye,Grief,Imran Khan,Thomas Friedman Updated: 2011-09-27 11:00:00 Description: Anne McElvoy talks to Adam Macqueen as Private Eye turns 50. Matthew Sweet discusses Mike Leigh's new play Grief and talks to Imran Khan anout his ambition to lead Pakistan and Philip Dodd in conversation with Gideon Rachman, Anatole Lieven and Pull...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentary Updated: 2011-09-21 16:00:00 Description: Rana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to critic David D’Arcy about Andrew Rossi's documentary film Page One and to Anna Funder about her new novel All that I Am. And a series of screenwriter’s lecture...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 12 September 2011 Updated: 2011-09-12 17:41:00 Description: Poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in the first ever Proms Poetry competition and Rabbi Julia Neuberger explores the piano’s literary life across the ages in conversation with ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 5 September 2011 Updated: 2011-09-05 16:48:00 Description: Biographer John Carey and author Meg Rosoff join Ian McMillan to discuss one of Britain's greatest post-war novelists - William Golding. And acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little completes our series of events in which musicians from this year’s Proms ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 2 September 2011 Updated: 2011-09-02 16:03:00 Description: The death of Prince Albert 150 years ago inspired the creation of the home of the Proms - the Royal Albert Hall. Historians Kate Williams and Dan Cruickshank join Matthew Sweet to reassess the Prince Consort and his legacy "the Albertopolis". And c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Proms Plus Literary: Dante and Andrew Litton Updated: 2011-08-25 12:24:00 Description: Historical novelist Sarah Dunant and Margaret Keane, author of ‘Inferno’, discuss Dante’s Divine Comedy. Leading American conductor Andrew Litton introduces a personal choice of readings from their favourite fiction and poetry....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 17 August 2011 Updated: 2011-08-17 12:06:00 Description: Matthew Sweet talks to Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar winning screenwriter of The Pianist and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Neil Brand, doyen of silent film pianists, discussing the role of music in film â from The Keystone Kops to indie fil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 11 August 2011 Updated: 2011-08-11 15:24:00 Description: Tariq Ali and Daniel Karlin discuss the writer Kipling and authors Val McDermid and Louise Welsh explore the explosion in Scandinavian crime writing with Rana Mitter....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 3 August 2011 Updated: 2011-08-03 14:28:00 Description: Playwright Mark Ravenhill and actor and writer Simon Callow discuss Faust with Matthew Sweet and Ian Mcmillan is in conversation with the conductor Robert Hollingworth about his favourite works of fiction and poetry....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 25 July 2011 Updated: 2011-07-28 15:00:00 Description: Kate Mosse and Edmund de Waal discuss great French literary classics with Matthew Sweet, and Peggy Reynolds talks to Rana Mitter about the cello in literature, with musical illustrations....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Arianna Huffington, Bertrand Tavernier & Hollywood portraiture Updated: 2011-07-12 15:36:00 Description: Arianna Huffington talks about the launch of her online newspaper, the Huffington Post, in the UK. Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier discusses his new historical drama set in the 16th century. Terry Charman and Kate Adie look at the Imperia...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Light Fantastic, Raymond Tallis, Libya, New Generation Thinker Updated: 2011-07-05 11:07:00 Description: Highlights from a Night Waves special as part of the Light Fantastic Festival weekend. Raymond Tallis and Armand Leroi discuss Raymond's new book, Aping Mankind. Paul Cartledge looks at the cultural collateral damage caused by military action against...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts:Margaret Drabble, Emma Rothschild ,Stanley Spencer exhibition and Authenticity and the Internet Updated: 2011-06-27 17:34:00 Description: Nightwaves looks at the subject of internet anonymity, visits a new exhibition of work by Stanley Spencer in Warwickshire, and empire, enlightenment, and emotion – all come together in an eighteenth-century Scottish townhouse in a new book from hi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Arundhati Roy, Siddharta Deb and Retromania Updated: 2011-06-14 14:57:00 Description: Acclaimed novelists Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb look at India as an emerging superpower. Kevin Macdonald discusses his film made up of footage from ordinary people. American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney explains why he wrote a play about a P...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, Senna Updated: 2011-06-07 12:35:00 Description: Sherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships. Candace Allen reviews an exhibition of photographs, postcards and journalism of US lynchings. Director Asif Kapadia discusses his award-winning documentary about...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Nightwaves Updated: 2011-05-31 22:03:00 Description: Anne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book which explores the resurgence of the Muslim veil and to three veteran war reporters who feature in a new Imperial War Museum North exhibition about the corresponden...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon Updated: 2011-05-23 15:45:00 Description: Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders. Susannah Clapp on immersive theatre. And interview with Vidal Sassoon....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Malcolm X, Diana Athill and Ai Wei Wei Updated: 2011-05-17 19:36:00 Description: An overview of the legacy of Malcolm X, Diana Athill on her short stories, a new film from Chad and a celebration of the work of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of Iran Updated: 2011-05-10 14:16:00 Description: Molly Dineen discusses her first collection of documentaries on DVD. Brian Christian talks about his book, The Most Human Human. A discussion on Bin Laden. Abbas Milani on his biography of the Shah of Iran....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan Updated: 2011-05-04 12:17:00 Description: Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose series. Anatol Lieven discusses his new book, Pakistan, A Hard Country. Max Clifford is on the panel of guests talking about Super Injunctions and we talk about the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: The Avengers Updated: 2011-04-27 12:58:00 Description: Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of The Avengers, 50 years after its first transmission....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Michel Sheen, Cameron Mackintosh & Wim Wenders Updated: 2011-04-18 16:06:00 Description: Michael Sheen talks about his role in the Passion Play in his home town of Port Talbot. Cameron Mackintosh discusses his latest musical, Betty Blue Eyes. Wim Wenders on his filmic ode to Pina Bausch and Matthew Sweet visits the new Turner Contempor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Aie Weiwei, the value of Arts & All About Love Updated: 2011-04-11 16:02:00 Description: Isabel Hilton on the artist Ai Weiwei and his recent problems with the Chinese state. Critic Louisa Buck reviews an exhibition of women war artists at the Imperial War Musuem. Philip Dodd and guests discuss whether the arts really do matter and Lisa ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Jim Loach, Victorian Prostitutes, Mrs. Dalloway Updated: 2011-04-04 18:02:00 Description: An interview with director Jim Loach on his film Oranges and Sunshine about child-deportation; the Victorian Prostitute as a character in fiction discussed by Lesley Hall and DJ Taylor; and an extract from the Night Waves Landmark edition on Virginia...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys Updated: 2011-03-28 18:37:00 Description: A look at Butlins at 75 with Roy Hudd and Martin Parr, an interview with Werner Herzog, novelist Jennifer Egan on her new book, and the collaboration between the Pet Shop Boys and choreographer Javier de Frutos....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Italy, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, existence Updated: 2011-03-22 17:00:00 Description: A panel of guests discuss the state of Italy, as the country marks 150 years of unification. David Baddiel on his latest novel. Chemist Peter Atkins explores great questions of existence. And Frank Skinner talks about his comedy career....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Rattigan, Arab world, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Malloch-Brown Updated: 2011-03-14 16:45:00 Description: Trevor Nunn on reviving Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. What does it mean to be an Arab? Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her new memoir. Former UN Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown on his new book....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Niall Ferguson, Joanna Hogg & Tom Hiddleston Updated: 2011-03-07 17:45:00 Description: Niall Ferguson talks about his new series, Civilisation and the importance of 'killer apps. Joanna Hogg talks about her latest film Archipelago and is joined by the leading man Tom Hiddleston. The poet Michael Longley talks about his latest collect...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade Updated: 2011-02-28 18:28:00 Description: Billy Bragg talks about protest songs, Rana Mitter hosts a discussion about the differing accounts of Chinese and British histories, Roger McGough and Ian Sinclair review the new film Howl, and an interview with Michael Grade....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: 14 April 11: Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee Updated: 2011-02-22 17:12:00 Description: Edna O'Brien talks to Philip Dodd about her new book Saints & Sinners. Matthew Sweet talks to Mark Henderson, the kidnapping victim who has made a documentary about his return to his place of capture. Matthew also discusses a new biography of Humph...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: 07 Feb: David Chipperfield & Colin Thubron Updated: 2011-02-14 15:53:00 Description: Travel writer Colin Thubron talks about his journey of discovery through Tibet. Architect David Chipperfield on his latest buildings, Sarah Dunant reviews the film of Never Let Me Go and Matthew Sweet looks at the history of the Fig Leaf....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Night Waves 31 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-02-07 17:16:00 Description: We ask does the West really understand India? Director Peter Kosminsky discusses his new TV drama The Promise. We review the film version of Brighton Rock and hear why the tenth parallel is so significant to Muslims and Christians....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Biutiful, laughter, John Gray and Susan Hiller Updated: 2011-01-31 17:03:00 Description: We review Oscar-nominated film Biutiful. A discussion about laughter with German choreographer, director, performer and filmmaker, Antonia Baehr. Philosopher John Gray on his new book, The Immortalisation Commission. Interview with artist Susan Hille...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley Updated: 2011-01-24 18:45:00 Description: We review the film, Black Swan. Anne McElvoy talks to Wilbert Rideau who spent 44 years in an American prison. Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Rudyard Kipling in the 75th year of his death and Philip Dodd talks to the philosopher Mary Midgley...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self Updated: 2010-12-30 12:30:00 Description: Directors Danny Boyle and Nev Schulman on their latest films; psychotherapist Susie Orbach and panel on 'just desserts'; interview with Hedge Fund millionaire David Harding; writer Will Self on the idea of Family Britain....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech Updated: 2010-12-21 17:08:00 Description: Director Peter Weir talks about his new film, The Way Back. Chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov about life after chess. A discussion about The King's Speech and our attitudes on stammering and a debate about the impact global religion will have on fu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet Updated: 2010-12-13 14:58:00 Description: Frank Cottrell Boyce on the joys of failure; Lisa Jardine and her scientist father's dilemmas during WWII; Ballet - on the rise or in demise? And which is more powerful, the street or the internet?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science Updated: 2010-12-07 18:34:00 Description: Anne Enright discusses a new anthology on Irish short stories, film critic David Thompson on his new Dictionary of Film. Another debate from the Free Thinking Festival on possessions and Climate Science....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd Updated: 2010-12-01 12:31:00 Description: Lord Ian Blair talks about violence and human behaviour; Pat Barker discusses her novels charting World War I, political satirist PJ O'Rourke on his new book, 'Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards' and biographer Michael Holroyd talks about w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker Updated: 2010-11-23 14:17:00 Description: This week, TV designer Kevin McCloud talks about shopping and festival goers speed date with a thinker as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Gateshead. And in London, plain speaking poet Craig Raine and the anthropologist who meets terrorist...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Free Thinking Updated: 2010-11-18 13:42:00 Description: This week's Arts & Ideas podcast features extracts from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. We debate the nature of happiness, comedy versus tragedy and actress Fiona Shaw talks about the roles that have informed her work....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead Updated: 2010-11-08 16:45:00 Description: Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead' at the British Museum; Richard Cohen talks to Philip Dodd about his new book, 'Chasing the Sun' and Ian Morris discusses his new book, W...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Amanda Foreman, Fintan O'Toole & Alasdair Gray Updated: 2010-11-01 17:51:00 Description: The Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole talks to Philip Dodd. Amanda Foreman discusses her new book based on the relationship between Britain and America during the American Civil War. Rana Mitter and guests explore how and why we smile and author and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft Updated: 2010-10-25 16:45:00 Description: Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip Larkin to his friend and lover of 40 years, Monica Jones. Dame Mary Warnock talks to Anne McElvoy about assisted dying and Rana Mitter talks to historian Patrick Wri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson Updated: 2010-10-18 17:43:00 Description: Salman Rushdie on his new book Luka and the Fire of Life. Biographer Bettany Hughes and philosopher Jonathan Ree reconstruct the life of Socrates. Aaron Sorkin talks about his new blockbuster film about Facebook and the winner of this year’s Man Bo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd Updated: 2010-10-12 15:15:00 Description: Jonathan Franzen talks about his new book Freedom. We discuss the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa. The Jordanian sculptor Mona Saudi talks about her new exhibition and Peter Ackroyd on his new book, The English ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English Updated: 2010-10-05 11:07:00 Description: In the 200th year of Mrs Gaskell's birth, Jenny Uglow and Katheryn Hughes discuss her work. Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd about his latest book, The Empty Family. We review Paul Gaugin at Tate Modern and discuss the use of 'Correct English' with...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Progression, Diaghilev & John Pawson Updated: 2010-10-01 11:43:00 Description: The use of the word 'Progression' in politics is discussed with Peter Hitchens, Kitty Ussher & Peter Catterall. The architect John Pawson on his retrospective at the London Design Museum and the choreographer Siobhan Davies reviews a new exhibition ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George Updated: 2010-09-20 17:43:00 Description: Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of The Blitz, the historian, Juliet Gardener, talks about its impact on 21st Century culture. And Roy Hattersley who has written a new biography of David Lloyd Georg...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Literary Festival Updated: 2010-09-10 14:55:00 Description: Ian McMillan discusses the story of Hansel and Gretal and its continuing relevance to children today and he also explores the relationship between poetry and music...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R3Arts: Proms Literary Festival Updated: 2010-09-03 11:03:00 Description: A celebration of Schiller's Ode to Joy sung by Billy Bragg. Exploring the genius of Czech writing including Franz Kafka....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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