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Shame

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Shame, The Iron Lady and Russia's Strongman.

• 45 mins

Sculpture Exhibition, Essays on the Digital Age, Margin Call, Critical Muslim

With Philip Dodd. Essays on changes taking place in the digital age; Margin Call reviewed.

• 45 mins

John Keane

Gil Scott Heron, Rupert Sheldrake, Liu Xiaobo, John Keane.

• 45 mins

Sadakat Kadri, Double Jeopardy, Survivor, War Horse

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Sadakat Kadri on a history of Sharia Law.

• 45 mins

TS Eliot Poetry Prize, Coriolanus, Film Funding, Tali Sharot

Matthew Sweet introduces a review of Ralph Fiennes's film of Coriolanus.

• 45 mins

David Hockney, Adhaf Soueif, Scott's Last Expedition, Cities

Juliet Gardiner with a review of a new exhibition of David Hockney's landscape paintings.

• 45 mins

Roger Scruton, WG Sebald, Travelling Light, Being Scottish

Matthew Sweet talks to Roger Scruton about his new book, Green Philosophy.

• 45 mins

J. Edgar

Anne McElvoy on J Edgar Hoover as a new film on the controversial FBI director opens.

• 45 mins

Night Waves at Free Thinking

Margaret Drabble in conversation at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival.

• 45 mins

The Trial of Ubu, Religion for Atheists, Celluloid Ceiling, The Descendants

Anne McElvoy discusses philosopher Alain de Botton's new book Religion for Atheists.

• 45 mins

Turner and the Elements, War Crimes Tribunals, Hajj Exhibition

Matthew Sweet visits the new Hajj exhibition at the British Museum.

• 45 mins

Iran

Rana Mitter presents a special programme on Iran.

• 45 mins

Leonard Cohen, Housing Crisis, Lawrence Durrell

Matthew Sweet is joined by Arthur Smith to review Leonard Cohen's new album, Old Ideas.

• 45 mins

Migrations, Wael Ghonim, She Stoops to Conquer, God's Jury

Philip Dodd talks to Egyptian web activist Wael Ghonim.

• 45 mins

Our Man in Rome

Rana Mitter with a new book on Gregorio Casali, Henry VIII's ambassador in Rome.

• 45 mins

Kate Grenville

Anne McElvoy talks to author Kate Grenville and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp.

• 45 mins

A Dangerous Method, Jesse Prinz, John McGregor, Beards

Philip Dodd disusses David Cronenberg's new film A Dangerous Method.

• 45 mins

International Review

Matthew Sweet hosts an International Review edition of the programme.

• 45 mins

William Boyd, Yayoi Kusama, Argentina, Waiting for Godot

Rana Mitter talks to writer William Boyd about his latest novel Waiting for Sunrise.

• 45 mins

Lucian Freud, David Gascoyne, African Economic Evolution, Antoni Tapies

Anne McElvoy visits the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

• 45 mins

Picasso, Baka Documentary, Speed-Dating, Josie Rourke

Including Picasso at Tate Britain, a new documentary about the Baka, and Josie Rourke.

• 45 mins

Rana Mitter interviews Turkish novelist Elif Shafak

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival.

• 45 mins

Waste Not, Universities, Posthumous Pardons

Philip Dodd presents a review of Waste Not, a show by Chinese artist Song Dong.

• 45 mins

Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the Oscar-nominated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

• 45 mins

Free Love, Catholicism, Roger Corman, Red Dog

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With a debate on the legacy of the sexual revolution.

• 45 mins

'Tis Pity She's a Whore, A Small Circus, Jeremy Deller, Carbon Democracy

Michael Hofmann talks to Anne McElvoy about German writer Hans Fallada.

• 45 mins

Moby Duck, The Art of Peace, Appointment with the Wicker Man

Rana Mitter and the strange story of 28,000 yellow plastic ducks lost at sea in 1992.

• 45 mins

Western Intervention, Rampart, Moral Compass, Aida

Philip Dodd and Andrew Dickson review Aida at the Royal Albert Hall.

• 45 mins

Peter Ackroyd, Middle Age, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Conformist

Matthew Sweet with Peter Ackroyd on his new book on Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins.

• 45 mins

Richard Holloway

Philip Dodd talks to Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, about his new memoir.

• 45 mins