Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Saint John Henry Newman
Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster, Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought
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Saint John Henry Newman
Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel
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Saint John Henry Newman
Newman's thought: Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel
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Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik talk to Anne McElvoy.
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Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment
Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing Russian history through four lives.
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Russia and Fear.
Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past & present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze.
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Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.
Sheila Hancock, Neil Bartlett, Bim Adewunmi and head teacher Jonny Mitchell debate rules.
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Rude Valentines. Neil Gaiman, Translating China's Arts
Neil Gaiman talks Norse myths with Rana Mitter. And a look at the ugly side of Valentines
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Royalty, art and patronage.
Craig Brown, Afua Hirsch, Robert Jobson, Joe Moshenska, AN Wilson, Philip Dodd on royalty
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Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
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Romanticism Revisited
Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open
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Romanian history and literature
Novelists Mircea C膬rt膬rescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
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Rocky Horror and camp
Shahidha Bari is joined by Louise Creechan, Joan Passey and Paul Baker
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Rocks
How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?
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Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Gemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.
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Rock Follies
The groundbreaking 1970s TV drama reassessed with guests including actor Rula Lenska.
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Robin Askwith
The actor talks to Matthew Sweet about a childhood affected by polio and his career.
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Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy
This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save...
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Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire
Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current...
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Robert Aickman
For Halloween, Matthew Sweet & guests discuss supernatural fiction, bad teeth & canals
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Rivers, different cultures, different values
Anthropologist, Poet, Archaeologist and Angler reflect on what a river should be
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Rivers and geopolitics
Global Dams, Ancient Rome & the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity
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Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Miller review 'Journey through the Afterlife: The Ancient...
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Revolutionary free speech
Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.
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Revisit: What does game playing teach us
From a Mesopotamian game to Scrabble, Shahidha Bari discusses competition and gaming.
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Revisit: Tokyo Story
Actor Richard Wilson & Prof Naoko Shimazu discuss Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film of family life
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Revisit: Tokyo Idols and Urban Life
The weird world of teenage girls seeking fame, plus the city in fiction and photography.
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Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books Shakespeare would have read.
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Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
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Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter at Hay
