Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, women on stage, Wilkie Collins, Artificial Intelligence
Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, how theatre has reflected the changing role of women, Andrew Lycett on the life of Wilkie Collins, changes in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Matthew Sweet reviews a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford called 'Flesh and Bone', which brings together 20 works by Francis Bacon and 40 by Henry Moore, exploring the influences and experiences they shared.
Actor Diana Quick, playwright Jessica Swale and theatre critic Susannah Clapp discuss the way the changing role of women has been reflected in the theatre over the last one hundred years.
In the field of artificial intelligence, 50 years of trying to evolve theories of human behaviour and language in order to create intelligent computers have been rendered redundant by simply crunching vast amounts of data. It is now easier, and cheaper, to predict than to explain - and the world, our world, is changing as a result. Professor Nello Cristianini explains to Matthew why imagining Hal was wrong and The Prisoner may have been right.
And the founding father of Victorian sensation-fiction, Wilkie Collins, gets a new biography. Author Andrew Lycett talks to Matthew about a man whose life, like his writing, was full of secrets and dedicated to exploring reality as feeling.
All on Night Waves this evening on Radio 3.
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What has the theatre ever done for women?
Duration: 16:55
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Women on stage
A discussion on the changing role of women, as reflected in the theatre
Duration: 16:56
Francis Bacon and Henry Moore
Art critic Bill Feaver reviews the Ashmolean Museum's exhibition of the two artists
Duration: 08:12
Wilkie Collins
Andrew Lycett discusses the founding father of Victorian sensation-fiction, Wilkie Collins
Duration: 09:31
Artificial Intelligence
Professor Nello Cristianini discusses the shifts in the field of Artificial Intelligence
Duration: 09:48
Francis Bacon and Henry Moore
The exhibition is on displayΒ at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum from 12th September to 19th January 2014.
Women on stage
Drama on 3 presents three classic plays that responded to the growing freedom of women at the turn of the twentieth century:Β
-Μύ, by Elizabeth Robins, will be broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3, Sunday 15thΒ September, at 8.30pm.Β
- The Father, by August Strindberg, will be broadcast on Sunday 22nd September.
-ΜύYou Never Can Tell, by George Bernard Shaw,Β will be broadcast onΒ Sunday 29th September.
Jessica Swale's debut play Β is on at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London until 11th October.Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation, by Andrew Lycett, is published by Hutchinson on 12th September.
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- Mon 9 Sep 2013 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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