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Wagner 200, Michael Landy, Prague
With Anne McElvoy. Including a discussion about Wagner and antisemitism.
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Khaled Hosseini, Man Booker International Prize, Disgraced, the Future of Psychiatry
Khaled Hosseini, Man Booker International Prize, Disgraced and the future of psychiatry.
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James Salter
Matthew Sweet talks to American novelist and short story writer James Salter.
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Lee Smolin, Mafia, Not I, Inconceivable
Lee Smolin talks to Samira Ahmed about the way that the laws of physics change over time.
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Acting Styles, Propaganda and Power, Jesse Norman
Anne McElvoy discusses the political legacy of Edmund Burke.
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The Great Gatsby, Charles Correa, Political Movements
With architect Charles Correa, the film The Great Gatsby and political movements.
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Public Enemy, FR Leavis, Tate Britain, Death
Matthew Sweet visits Tate Britain to examine a complete re-hang of the collection.
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Melnikov House, Anat Admati, The Hothouse, The Rest is Noise
Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Russell Beale and John Simm about Pinter's The Hothouse.
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Rothko Returns to Latvia, John Beddington
Rothko returns to Latvia; and former Government Chief Scientific Adviser John Beddington.
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Peter Nichols, Darian Leader, Politics in Architecture
Rana Mitter talks to the playwright Peter Nichols about his Passion Play.
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Terence Stamp
Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp.
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Future Warfare
Anne McElvoy and guests examine how the traditional rules of warfare are changing.
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Billy Liar, Ellen Gallagher, Introverts & Extroverts, Michael Burleigh
Samira Ahmed looks back at John Schlesinger's film Billy Liar on its 50th anniversary.
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Steve Jones, Tony Garnett, Margaret Mead
Tony Garnett; Steve Jones on the Bible; Peter Mandler and Kit Davies on Margaret Mead.
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The Octoroon
Matthew Sweet is joined on stage at the Royal Stratford East by playwright Mark Ravenhill.
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Simon Schama, America in Primetime, Here Lies Love, Basti
Presented by Anne McElvoy. Including an interview with Simon Schama.
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Englishness
Philip Dodd and six guests discuss Englishness. What is it and is it a useful identity?
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Othello, Richard Holmes, Insects, The Middle Classes
Rana Mitter presents a first-night review of the National Theatre's production of Othello.
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The New Common Reader
Matthew Sweet examines the place of reading in a digital age.
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Sheryl Sandberg, Doktor Glas, Revenge, Choucair
Anne McElvoy talks to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer.
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Tanika Gupta, BC Johnson, Corin Throsby & Laurence Scott, Rick Gekoski
Tanika Gupta discusses her new play about late Victorian Indian immigrants to Britain.
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Howard Brenton, BRICS Countries, Napoleon, Promised Land
Philip Dodd talks to Howard Brenton about his new play, The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei.
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15/04/2013
Matthew Sweet presents a review of the new opera The Sunken Garden.
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Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher, with Dominic Sandbrook, Will Self, Peter Hitchens and Edwina Currie.
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Oliver Stone, Chimamanda Adichie, Web Harvesting
Chimamanda Adichie, Oliver Stone, AS Byatt on web harvests, and a Twitter-inspired opera.
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The Rijksmuseum
Matthew Sweet visits Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
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Landmarks: The Making of the English Working Class
A landmark edition examining EP Thompson's book The Making of the English Working Class.
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Silence, Geffrye Museum, Edward Petherbridge, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Anne McElvoy talks to writer and historian Diarmaid MacCulloch.
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Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, Adam Rutherford, John Yorke
Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, genetics with Adam Rutherford and producer John Yorke.
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History in Schools
What history should children learn and be able to contextualise? And what do they know?
