Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Facing Facts
From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces
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Facing Facts
From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to peoples' faces
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Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
Rana Mitter looks at the ideologies surrounding climate disaster
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Experimental writing
Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton
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Existential Risk
Planning and creating in the shadow of the doomsday clock with Shahidha Bari and guests
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Evelyn Waugh.
Bryony Lavery, Alexander Waugh, Philip Eade and Adam Mars-Jones celebrate Evelyn Waugh
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Europe
Ece Temelkuran, Ben Judah, Misha Glenny and Timothy Garton Ash with Rana Mitter at Hay
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ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician
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ETA Hoffmann
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the life of the German Romantic who died 25 June 1822.
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Essex
Looking beyond the stereotypes of the county that's often described as 'much maligned'.
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Essay writing
From Montaigne to modern Scottish writing - Rana Mitter discusses what makes a good Essay
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Essay - The Magic Years
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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Escapism
Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape
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Epistemic Injustice
Shahidha Bari investigates how theory of knowledge can address real world problems
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Epic Iran, lost cities and Proust
Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran + why people abandon cities.
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Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk
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Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands
Marie Darrieussecq, Lisa Mullen, Dafydd Daniel on magic and dystopias with Matthew Sweet.
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Empathy
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey & AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman’s Rights
Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence
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Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking
Matthew Sweet hears about research into the singer & friend of JS Mill feat. live songs!
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Elites.
Douglas Carswell, David Runciman and Eliane Glaser join Matthew Sweet to discuss elites.
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Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel VΓ΅squez and Javier Cercas
Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
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Elif Safak at Free Thinking Festival
The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter in an interview recorded at last...
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Egyptian Satire
Dina Rezk explores the power of humour and protest
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Egyptian Satire
The power of humour in protest.
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Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan
Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose...
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Edward Said's thinking
Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator
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Edward Bond
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the playwright Edward Bond (18 July 1934 – 3 March 2024)
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Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Edna O'Brien talks to Philip Dodd about her new book Saints & Sinners.
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East West religious connections
Authors Rowan Williams & Christopher Harding and artist Gayle Chong Kwan join Rana Mitter
