As part of Wagner 200 week, Anne McElvoy assesses the composer's relationship with his Jewish...
Rana Mitter talks to Khaled Hosseini about his third novel And the Mountains Echoed, which...
Matthew Sweet talks to American writer James Salter about his new novel All That Is, and his...
Samira Ahmed talks to theoretical physicist Lee Smolin about the crisis of physics and the way...
Anne McElvoy meets Jesse Norman MP, whose new biography of Edmund Burke, founder of modern...
Theatre director Peter Brook has had a lifelong interest in the work of Shakespeare, which he...
Samira Ahmed presents a review of Baz Luhrmann's new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which...
Matthew Sweet visits Tate Britain to examine a complete re-hang of the collection with artworks...
Anne McElvoy presents a first-night review of Harold Pinter's macabre tragi-comedy The...
With Philip Dodd. Mark Rothko, the American painter of Latvian Jewish descent, is probably best...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Rana Mitter.
Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp about his...
With the advent of new forms of warfare from drones to cyber-attacks, Anne McElvoy and guests...
Samira Ahmed looks back at John Schlesinger's film Billy Liar, the story of a young...
Philip Dodd talks to geneticist Steve Jones, whose new book The Serpent's Promise re-examines...
Matthew Sweet is joined on stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London by playwright...
Anne McElvoy is joined by Simon Schama, who discusses the relationship between history and...
Philip Dodd presents an edition of the arts and ideas programme.
Rana Mitter presents a first-night review of the National Theatre's eagerly awaited new...
Matthew Sweet explores the power and place of reading in the thickets of today's digital age,...
Anne McElvoy talks to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, whose new book Lean...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Rana Mitter.
Philip Dodd talks to playwright Howard Brenton about his new play The Arrest of Ai Weiwei.
Matthew Sweet presents a review of The Sunken Garden, a new opera collaboration with a libretto...
Since her death on April 8, Lady Thatcher has been lauded as the greatest peace-time prime...
Samira Ahmed meets Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose new novel Americanah follows a young couple...
Matthew Sweet visits Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch, which...
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition discussing EP Thompson's The Making of the English...
Anne McElvoy talks to writer and historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, whose latest work Silence: A...
Samira Ahmed is joined by columnist Ian Birrell and campaigning GP Jonathon Tomlinson to...
Rana Mitter is joined by historian David Cannadine, Tristram Hunt MP, Sheila Lawlor of the...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Anne McElvoy.
Samira Ahmed talks to author Mohsin Hamid about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the...
Matthew Sweet talks to critic James Wood, who discusses The Fun Stuff, a new collection of...
Anne McElvoy presents a review of the West End debut of The Book of Mormon, a satirical musical...
Rana Mitter presents an edition for Baroque Spring, talking to artists and designers about the...
Philip Dodd talks to philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist Noam Chomsky.
Matthew Sweet talks to Spanish author Javier Marías about his much-anticipated new novel The...
Anne McElvoy talks to acclaimed Balkan novelist and essayist Aleksandar Hemon.
Philip Dodd visits the Royal Academy of Arts for the first-ever UK retrospective of celebrated...
Samira Ahmed talks to Mexican film-maker Carlos Reygadas, who won the best director award at...
Matthew Sweet talks to acclaimed Irish novelist Julia O'Faolain, whose new memoir Trespassers...
Anne McElvoy talks to Michael Axworthy whose new book Revolutionary Iran offers a definitive...
Rana Mitter presents the programme devoted to arts and ideas.
Matthew Sweet with a first-night review of Peter Morgan's new play The Audience at the Gielgud...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Philip Dodd.
During the 14 years of the Weimar Republic, Germany lurched from chaos to fragile democracy and...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Samira Ahmed.
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Matthew Sweet.
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Philip Dodd.
A Landmark edition in which Anne McElvoy and guests focus on Alain-Fournier's celebrated and...
Rana Mitter talks to author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, whose book How to Create a...
Philip Dodd meets historian Shlomo Sand, professor at Tel Aviv University and author of the...
Matthew Sweet examines a new retrospective of paintings and sculptures by one of the major...
Anne McElvoy meets writer Andrew Solomon, whose new book Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of...
Matthew Sweet examines a major new exhibition at London's Barbican Centre assessing the legacy...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Philip Dodd.
Samira Ahmed meets author and academic Amit Chaudhuri, whose new memoir Calcutta: Two Years in...
Anne McElvoy discusses American photographer Man Ray and 1920s Paris. Plus, William Dalrymple...
Samira Ahmed visits a new show about Ice Age art at the British Museum, and writer Nadeem Aslam...
As London's Natural History Museum plays host to a new exhibition on extinction, Philip Dodd...
Matthew Sweet talks about the discovery of the remains of Richard III, England's most infamous...
Anne McElvoy presents a review of Ian Rickson's West End revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times....
Philip Dodd meets historian Deborah Cohen, whose new book Family Secrets examines the shifting...
Rana Mitter explores The Universe Within, palaeontologist Neil Shubin's new book, which...
Matthew Sweet examines the late work of German artist Kurt Schwitters, one of the major forces...
Anne McElvoy presents a review of new movie Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's...
Samira Ahmed examines British social realism in film with the hindsight of half a century, and...
Matthew Sweet reviews the UK's first-ever retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Edouard...
Rana Mitter reviews Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic of Abraham Lincoln starring Daniel...
Anne McElvoy presents a Landmark edition focusing on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice on its...
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Philip Dodd.
Magazine exploring developments in culture and the arts, presented by Matthew Sweet.
Philip Dodd discusses Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography The Pike, a new account of Italian poet...
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the life and work of Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski....
Rana Mitter examines the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations,...
Philip Dodd presents a first-night review of Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,...
Matthew Sweet talks to playwright Michael Frayn as a season of his drama begins on Radio 3 and...
Philip Dodd meets director Bernard Rose, whose new film Boxing Day is a modern reworking of...
Matthew Sweet examines the obsessive on- and off-camera relationship between Alfred Hitchcock...
Anne McElvoy talks to film director Ang Lee and presents a first-night review of Conor...
With Philip Dodd, including a first-night review from the Royal Court Theatre, London, of...
Matthew Sweet chairs an `international review' edition, with critics from around the world...
Anne McElvoy talks to screenwriter Ronald Harwood about his new film Quartet, reviews an...
Matthew Sweet talks to director Michael Grandage, whose theatre company launches with a new...
Samira Ahmed presents a first-night review of an all-female production of Julius Caesar...
Anne McElvoy examines how Napoleon is viewed in his homeland today, 200 years after the French...
Arts and cultural debate with Samira Ahmed, including a first-night review of Sondheim's...
Matthew Sweet marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Tarzan of the Apes, and looks...
Rana Mitter interviews writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose new book Antifragile examines how...
Rana Mitter talks to Zygmunt Bauman. His book Liquid Surveillance asks if a digital future of...
Philip Dodd with a review of Paul Thomas Anderson's film The Master starring Philip Seymour...
Anne McElvoy meets acclaimed Australian novelist Thomas Keneally whose new novel The Daughters...
Philip Dodd talks to Norwegian writer and economist Jo Nesbo, whose novel The Bat, the first of...
With Matthew Sweet who talks to film historian David Thomson. His new book The Big Screen: The...
Hanna Rosin talks to Philip Dodd about her new book The End of Men and the Rise of Women, which...
Matthew Sweet examines Nicholas Roe's new biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats,...
Arts and cultural discussion with Samira Ahmed, who talks to sculptor Anish Kapoor about his...
Philip Dodd talks to Nobel Peace Prize winner and former United Nations secretary-general Kofi...
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Anne McElvoy talks to novelist and film director Paul Auster, whose new memoir Winter Journal...
Anne McElvoy presents a review of the National Theatre's production of Howard Barker's Scenes...
Philip Dodd talks to Scottish poet and musician Don Paterson as his Selected Poems are...
Rana Mitter talks to writer and editor Anne Applebaum, whose new book Iron Curtain chronicles...
Matthew Sweet talks to Sarah Wise about her new book Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and...
Anne McElvoy discusses Mary Fulbrook's A Small Town Near Auschwitz, a new insight into how...
As Nasa pins hopes on its Mars rover Curiosity, Samira Ahmed examines the cultural significance...
Matthew Sweet examines the newly opened Islamic art wing at the Paris Louvre. It is a...
Philip Dodd talks to Mark Rylance, former artistic director of the Globe, who is currently...
Anne McElvoy presents a review of August Strindberg's Mademoiselle Julie at the Barbican, which...
Philip Dodd meets Barbara Hulanicki, founder of clothes store Biba, whose new exhibition at...
Former prime minister John Major talks to Matthew Sweet about his new book My Old Man, which...
Rana Mitter talks to author Sebastian Faulks, whose new novel A Possible Life explores the...
Philip Dodd concludes the week's exploration of well-being and the good life, with an extended...
In a week of programmes devoted to the good life, Matthew Sweet presents an edition examining...
In a week of programmes devoted to the good life, Anne McElvoy examines whether people place...
Philip Dodd begins a week of programmes devoted to well-being and the good life by examining...
Philip Dodd talks to Mark Rylance, former artistic director of the Globe, who is set to reprise...
Rana Mitter talks to poet James Fenton about Yellow Tulips, his latest collection of new and...
As London limbers up to host the Olympic Games, Matthew Sweet explores the capital's place as a...
Anne McElvoy explores the life and influence of Italian painter Titian.
With Anne McElvoy, including an interview with booker prize winning author John Banville whose...
Philip Dodd talks to playwright Simon Stephens who has created a new version of Ibsen's...
Fifty years on from its first cinema release,Samira Ahmed examines the legacy of Anthony...
Matthew Sweet hosts a Landmark edition examining Alfred Hitchcock's drama Blackmail that was to...
American film director Todd Solondz, whose CV includes such art-house hits as Welcome to the...
Philip Dodd explores the influence of Swiss-born 18th-century essayist Jean-Jacques Rousseau,...
Rana Mitter visits new Tate Modern Exhibition Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye, which includes 60...
Matthew Sweet visits the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford to view the first solo exhibition of...
Matthew Sweet hosts an international review edition in which critics from around the world...
Samira Ahmed examines Veep, a new TV comedy created by Armando Iannucci set in the office of a...
Anne McElvoy examines the Liverpool Tate's ambitious exhibition gathering together works by JMW...
Philip Dodd examines English National Opera's new production of Benjamin Britten's acclaimed...
Anne McElvoy talks to David Cronenberg about his new film Cosmopolis.
Philip Dodd talks to Slavoj Zizek on Europe's future.
Matthew Sweet talks to Harry Belafonte about leading black actors in film.
Rana Mitter talks to Martin Amis about his new book Lionel Asbo.
Anne McElvoy meets naturalist Robert Macfarlane, whose new book The Old Ways deals with how...
Samira Ahmed talks to author Robert Caro about the Passage of Power, the latest volume of his...
Matthew Sweet talks to the comedian Ken Dodd about his life and career. Seventy seven years...
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition examining Muriel Spark's 1961 novel The Prime of Miss...
Anne McElvoy visits the Serpentine Gallery in central London to observe its new pavilion,...
Philip Dodd sees a new production of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone at the National Theatre, with...
John Irving talks to Rana Mitter about the themes of innocence, sexual identity and trust in...
Anne McElvoy meets neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author David Eagleman, whose...
Two decades on from the death of Giovanni Falcone, the Palermo-born magistrate famed for his...
Samira Ahmed talks to poet and writer Jackie Kay, whose new collection of short stories Reality...
Matthew Sweet sees Barbaric Genius, a new film documenting the remarkable story of the writer...
Anne McElvoy sees a new production of Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys starring Danny...
Samira Ahmed attends the reopening of the Photographers' Gallery, London's largest public...
Matthew Sweet meets screenwriter Paul Laverty, whose new film Even the Rain, directed by Icíar...
Rana Mitter reads a new collection of poetry by members of the Taliban.
Anne McElvoy talks to Hilary Mantel about her latest historical novel. Bring Up the Bodies, the...
Samira Ahmed talks to Andro Linklater about his new book, Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The...
Matthew Sweet talks to Kate Summerscale, whose new book Mrs Robinson's Disgrace examines the...
An edition from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, in which Philip Dodd is joined by...
In the latest edition of Night Waves' Landmarks series, Philip Dodd examines Shakespeare's The...
Rana Mitter visits a major new exhibition of Bauhaus art at the Barbican in London and...
Anne McElvoy examines the influence of Leonardo da Vinci on people's understanding of human...
Matthew Sweet with a review of English National Opera's The Flying Dutchman, in a new...
