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Night Waves

Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas programme, featuring discussions, debates, interviews and reviews with leading academics and artists.

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    Lucian Freud, David Gascoyne, African Economic Evolution, Antoni Tapies

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    Anne McElvoy visits the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

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    1. William Boyd, Yayoi Kusama, Argentina, Waiting for Godot

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      Rana Mitter talks to writer William Boyd about his latest novel Waiting for Sunrise.

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      Matthew Sweet hosts an International Review edition of the programme.

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      Philip Dodd disusses David Cronenberg's new film A Dangerous Method.

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      Anne McElvoy talks to author Kate Grenville and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp.

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Due to a technical fault, many editions of Night Waves broadcast before November 2011 are incorrectly listed as 'available now on BBC iPlayer'. We apologise and hope to rectify this problem soon.

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Matthew Sweet presents a review of the exhibtion Picasso and Modern British Art.

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