Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Cornwall and the Coastal Gothic
Laurence Scott investigates what's lurking in the rock pools
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Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics
Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also...
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Contagion and Viruses
Matthew Sweet talks to John DuprΓ© , Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen & Matt Adams
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Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
Anne McElvoy surveys current thinking on big political ideas and ideology.
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Consent
How we deal with unwanted sexual advances and changing depictions on stage are debated.
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Connecting with nature
Music from thunder, art inspired by a dog walk,essays about a rural wood and a city field
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Comrades in Arms
Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality
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Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care
Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the UK
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Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
Ella Parry-Davies draws on experiences of migrant domestic workers in the UK & Lebanon
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Colour
Laurence Scott and guests on the history and meaning of colour
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Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
Is it a good thing to stand out? Anne McElvoy and guests explore the virtue of being dull
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Coins, the magic money tree and a cashless world
In February 1971 the UK went decimal. Anne McElvoy and guests look at money old and new.
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Climate change, nature and art
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.
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Climate change and empire building
The long history of climate change and empire: historians Nandini Das and Peter Frankopan
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Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.
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Class and social mobility
Selina Todd, David Goodhart, Timandra Harkness and Sadie Ryan talk with Matthew Sweet.
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Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming
The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared
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Churchill's reputation
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies
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Christopher Logue's War Music
Shahidha Bari and guests read this version of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔr's Illiad and look at Logue's language
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Chris Patten
The full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Governor and new chairman of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ...
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Choice
Do poets choose their words or are they predetermined?
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Chocolate
Shahidha Bari discusses the confection that has conquered the world
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Chocolate
Shahidha Bari discusses the confection that has conquered the world
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China: world politics, ink art & insomnia
Kevin Rudd talks about avoiding catastrophic conflict between China and the USA
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China, Freud, war and sci fi
From AI & fan fiction to 1930s replica antiquities: new ways of thinking about China.
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Children of the Waters
Sabina Dosani looks at the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage
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Childhood faces and fears
A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney
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Childhood and play
The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak
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Childhood and innocence
Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper
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Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival
Testament, Hannah Silva, historian Jessica Cox and Thackray museum curator Laura Sellers
