Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd
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Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor
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Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France
Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about a lost language of the road
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WW II radio propaganda & French relations
From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.
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Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham at the British Library with Matthew Sweet
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Writing and Frankness
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
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Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes
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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.
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Women, relationships and the law past and present
Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay
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Women Finding a Voice
Deborah Frances-White host of The Guilty Feminist pod, Natalie Haynes, Michèle Roberts
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Women Behaving Badly?
Kiley Reid on her new novel and Helen Lewis on 'difficult' women
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Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy
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Wole Soyinka's writing
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike & Oladipo Agboluaje discuss the Nigerian author's life and work
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Witchcraft, Werewolves, and Writing The Devil
Conjuring fear, discussed by historians and by novelists Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden
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Winter Light
From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars & Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.
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Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz
Colin Grant Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari
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William Kentridge and William Boyd
South African artist William Kentridge and novelist William Boyd talk to Philip Dodd
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Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.
Gillian Clarke. Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival...
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Why we read and the idea of the "woman writer"
From Elizabethan Anne Dowriche, Victorian Anne Bronte to why women say they read now.
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Why We Need Weepies
From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why?
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Why We Need New News
Research on reporting hangings, assassinations & propaganda from the Being Human Festival
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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment
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Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
Is public silence still the best way to honour our war dead?
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Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Lisa Mullen looks at the contribution of Orwell's wife Eileen to his writing.
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Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Dafydd Mills Daniel looks at links between the UN, Richard III and Disney's Jiminy Cricket
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When TV & the information superhighway were new
Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on the experimental art of Nam June Paik and John Giorno
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When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
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Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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What's so great about EM Forster
Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the English novelist's work.