Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Resting And Rushing
Should we take more breaks at during the working day? With Claudia Hammond.
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Renzo Piano
The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard
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Remembering Auschwitz
Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation & talks to author Anne Michaels
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Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.
The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago and suffragette Punch and Judy.
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Religion and Science
Is the idea that religion and science are at odds a myth?
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Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi
With Anne McElvoy. We discuss the fraught relationship between religion and politics.
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Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
Philip Dodd visits the US rust belt city of Cleveland.
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Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure
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Refuge and National Poetry Day
Poets Momtaza Mehri, Julianknxx and historian JesΓΊs Sanjurjo join Matthew Sweet
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Reflecting Rural Life
Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.
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Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.
Who holds the power? The US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.
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Reading & Empathy
With Shahidha Bari and guests
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Re-writing C20th British Philosophy
Shahidha Bari with news of the Man Booker Prize and discussion about female philosophers
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Re-thinking the Human Condition
Thomas Woolston Free Thinker, Isaiah Berlin philosopher plus memory and neuroscience.
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Rattigan, Arab world, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Malloch-Brown
Trevor Nunn on reviving Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. What does it mean to be an...
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Rationality & Tradition
Steven Pinker on Rationality and Tim Stanley on Tradition - Anne McElvoy hosts
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne McElvoy looks at the life and legacy of the intriguing poet
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Radio 3 Proms Poetry Competition 2017
2017 Proms Poetry Competition: Ian McMillan is joined by Jason Polley & Judith Palmer...
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Radio 3 broadcasts Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' this Sunday 31 Jan 2016 as the Sunday Drama.
Hear Lorraine's life and writing career discussed on Free Thinking.
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R3Arts: Play Schubert for Me - Episode 5
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...
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R3 Arts: Night Waves: Nadine Gordimer
Anne McElvoy talks to Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Nadine Gordimer.
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R3 Arts: Free Thinking 2013 - Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Marmot delivers the opening lecture of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Free Thinking 2013,...
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R3 Arts: Free Thinking - Looking at Art
Philip Dodd explores the way we look at art with documentary maker Fred Wiseman, Iwona...
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Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
Diarmuid Hester & Dodie Bellamy on a '70s US writing group. Lauren Elkin on art monsters
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Queer histories
How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?
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Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance
Paul Mendez and Francesca Wade on Virginia Woolf, walking, identity and Dalloway Day
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Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
Shahidha Bari and guests on a Royal Collection exhibition and the new Bridgerton spin off
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Quatermass
Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
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Punk
Shahidha Bari digs into the filth and the fury to see what resonates today
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Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans
