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    Zadie Smith

    Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd

  2. Writing and Frankness

    Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.

  3. Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human

    Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris.

  4. Women, relationships and the law past and present

    Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay

  5. Women Finding a Voice

    Deborah Frances-White host of The Guilty Feminist pod, Natalie Haynes, Michèle Roberts

  6. Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

    Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy

  7. Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz

    Colin Grant Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari

  8. William Kentridge and William Boyd

    South African artist William Kentridge and novelist William Boyd talk to Philip Dodd

  9. Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.

    Gillian Clarke. Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.

  10. Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...

  11. Why We Need Weepies

    From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?

  12. Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

    Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment

  13. Why are we silent when conflict is loud?

    Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?

  14. Who Wrote Animal Farm?

    Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.

  15. Where Do Human Rights Come From?

    Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket

  16. Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?

    Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

  17. What St Augustine teaches us

    Anne McElvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace

  18. What Nietzsche teaches us

    Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today

  19. What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs

    Poetic and archaeological trip round our fascination with what comes up when we dig down.

  20. What kind of history should we write?

    Peter Frankopan & Maya Jasanoff, winner of richest prize for history with Rana Mitter

  21. What is Speech?

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox

  22. What does game playing teach us?

    Bobby Seagull & Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games.

  23. What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.

    Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.

  24. What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing"?

    Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.

  25. What Camus and Claude Lévi-Strauss teach us

    Being an outsider and learning to think like an outsider

  26. Were the Luddites Right?

    Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their...

  27. Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons

    With Philip Dodd. Julia Lovell and Richard Cork talk about 'Waste Not', the first solo...

  28. Walls

    Novelist John Lanchester, historians David Frye, Kylie Murray and journalist Tim Marshall

  29. Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens

    In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...

  30. Trees of Knowledge

    Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner

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