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    Zadie Smith

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

  2. Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor

  3. Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France

    Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about a lost language of the road

  4. WW II radio propaganda & French relations

    From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.

  5. Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell

    Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham at the British Library with Matthew Sweet

  6. Writing and Frankness

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

  7. Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes

    Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes

  8. 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.

  9. Women, relationships and the law past and present

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

  10. Women Finding a Voice

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

  11. Women Behaving Badly?

    Kiley Reid on her new novel and Helen Lewis on 'difficult' women

  12. Wolfson History Prize Discussion.

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

  13. Wole Soyinka's writing

    Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike & Oladipo Agboluaje discuss the Nigerian author's life and work

  14. Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil

    Conjuring fear, discussed by historians and by novelists Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden

  15. Winter Light

    From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars & Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.

  16. Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz

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

  17. William Kentridge and William Boyd

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

  18. Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.

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

  19. Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

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

  20. Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"

    From Elizabethan Anne Dowriche, Victorian Anne Bronte to why women say they read now.

  21. Why We Need Weepies

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

  22. Why We Need New News

    Research on reporting hangings, assassinations & propaganda from the Being Human Festival

  23. Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

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

  24. Why are we silent when conflict is loud?

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

  25. Who Wrote Animal Farm?

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

  26. Where Do Human Rights Come From?

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

  27. When TV & the information superhighway were new

    Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno

  28. When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

    Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.

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

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

  30. What's so great about EM Forster

    Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the English novelist's work.

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