Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens
In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...
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Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and others discuss the politics of this 1973 fable
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Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
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Uncertainty
Chris Lintott, Margaret Heffernan, Liam Halligan, Tim Garton Ash, Victoria Donovan
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Twilight
Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish
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Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
Having survived a plane crash, the Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60 died in an execution
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Tudor Virtual Reality
The link between VR dinosaurs and a Tudor wall painting of the Judgment of Solomon
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Tudor Virtual Reality
What is the link between VR dinosaurs & a Tudor wall painting of the Judgement of Solomon?
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Tudor families
Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII
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Trees of Knowledge
Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner
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Travel, pleasure and peril
From preventing strangulation on the railways to guide maps and the art of travel posters
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Travel
Travel past and present and broadening the mind? Travel journalists and historians debate
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Trapeze acts and circus celebrities
Shahidha Bari hears about the aerialists Lillian Leitzel and Pablo Fanque.
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Translating Cultures
Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau
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Traditions, roots and local pride
Ex MP Penny Mordaunt's new book asks Why Britain's Traditions Matter. Matthew Sweet hosts
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Trade, Davos, Ocean travel and Mermaids
Anne McElvoy on Davos discussions, Ocean liner style at the V&A and mermaids in fiction.
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Toys
How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.
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Tourism past and present
The must see sights for Post Napoleonic war tourists, cold war travellers & hot spots now
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Touki Bouki
The Journey of the Hyena mixes West African oral tradition with New Wave and Soviet style
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Touki Bouki
A close look at Djibril Diop Mamb茅ty's classic 1973 film with Matthew Sweet and guests
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Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George
Tony Blair talks about his new book, A Journey. In the week of the 70th anniversary of...
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Tolerance, censorship and free speech.
Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen & Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.
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Tokyo Idols and Urban life.
Tomouki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.
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Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
New research into the history of stainless steel cutlery, tinned food and sewing machines
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Times of Change
Can the Industrial Revolution and the end of the Aztecs help us shape a post COVID world
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Time
As the clocks go back, Matthew Sweet and guests host a party for time travellers
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Thomas Mann
Novelist Colm Toibin joins Anne McElvoy to discuss the German author's life and struggles
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Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
Shahidha Bari discuss the audience in the arts with Kwame Kwei Armah and guests
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The Writing of Aime Cesaire
Cesaire's poetry, politics, and ideas on anti-colonialism and black consciousness
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The Working Lunch and Food in History
How the Victorians changed lunch, Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
