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    Arts & Ideas

    Arts & Ideas

    Arts & Ideas

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    866 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 866 episodes

    Title

    Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

    Classicist Mary Beard picks Tacitus as a figure who still has relevance if we're thinki...

    57 minutes
    		Apr 19, 2024

    Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

    "The times they are a changin" or are they? In politics people are talking about an app...

    56 minutes
    		Apr 12, 2024

    Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

    What do you owe the state and what does it provide for us? Writing during the English c...

    56 minutes
    		Apr 05, 2024

    Unravelling plainness

    Gold sequins, silk and vibrant colour threads might not be what you expect to find in a...

    14 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2024

    Pranks

    In 1910 Virginia Woolf and a group of friends caused a stir when they were welcomed on ...

    44 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2024

    What does feminist art mean?

    Who's Holding the Baby? was the title of an exhibition organised to highlight a lack of...

    14 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2024

    New Thinking: Light and Darkness

    The impact of light bulbs on cities like New York and Paris at the turn of the twentiet...

    39 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2024

    New Thinking: East West artistic connections

    The Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens produced around 1,500 artworks, and a ne...

    35 minutes
    		Mar 27, 2024

    Approaches to death

    Viking burials, preserving archaeology in Uganda, the morgues of Paris and New York and...

    44 minutes
    		Mar 27, 2024

    Writing Place

    An ancient Sussex church - home to a medieval anchorite and the cottage where William B...

    44 minutes
    		Mar 27, 2024