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Scenes from an Execution, Tamara Rojo, al-Qaeda, Rothko/Sugimoto

Anne McElvoy presents a review of Howard Barker's play Scenes from an Execution.

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Paul Auster, Catalan Independence, Ruby Sparks, Edmund de Waal

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With novelist Paul Auster and potter/writer Edmund de Waal.

• 45 mins

International Review

Matthew Sweet with an International Review edition, discussing the arts around the world.

• 45 mins

Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan talks to Philip Dodd about diplomacy, his father and the future of the UN.

• 45 mins

Mo Yan, Anish Kapoor, All that Fall, Frontline Medicine

Samira Ahmed talks to sculptor Anish Kapoor. Plus Samuel Beckett's All that Fall reviewed.

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Keats, Michael Chabon, The Ash Tree

Arts and cultural discussion with Matthew Sweet includes a new biography of John Keats.

• 45 mins

Hanna Rosin, Hollywood Costume, Psychoanalysis and Climate Change, 1922

Philip Dodd on 1922, Hollywood Costume, The End of Men, and climate change.

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Wagner

Anne McElvoy maps the intellectual development which informed Richard Wagner's work.

• 45 mins

Syrian Art, Institutions and Abuse, David Thomson

Matthew Sweet is joined by film historian David Thomson.

• 45 mins

Jo Nesbo interviewed, Howard Brenton on Cromwell

Jo Nesbo discusses his novel The Bat; Howard Brenton on his play featuring Cromwell.

• 45 mins

Wagner and Myth

In a special edition, Samira Ahmed examines how myth influenced Wagner.

• 45 mins

Thomas Keneally, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, David Byrne

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Thomas Keneally, a Barbara Hepworth show and David Byrne.

• 45 mins

Phil Redmond, The Master

Philip Dodd talks to TV producer and writer Phil Redmond. Plus the new film The Master.

• 45 mins

Frank Auerbach, Surveillance, Die Nibelungen, Christopher Hampton.

Rana Mitter reviews Frank Auerbach and talks to Zygmunt Bauman and Christopher Hampton.

• 45 mins

Hell is Other People

Anne McElvoy chairs a debate entitled Hell is Other People at Free Thinking 2012.

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Nassim Taleb, The Old Regime and the Revolution, The Hunt

Arts and cultural debate with Rana Mitter includes writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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Antony Gormley, Maria Friedman, Intelligence, Andrei Tarkovsky

Matthew Sweet talks to sculptor Antony Gormley about his new monumental work.

• 45 mins

Napoleon Rising, Great Expectations, Iran, Victoria and Albert Museum

With Samira Ahmed. Including a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum's furniture gallery

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Napoleon, Turner Prize, Georgia

Anne McElvoy examines how Napoleon is viewed in his homeland today.

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Julius Caesar, Cross-Casting, Tim Pat Coogan, Buddhism, Brazilian Writers

With A first-night review of Julius Caesar and Fiona Shaw on cross-casting in Shakespeare.

• 45 mins

Michael Grandage, Artificial Intelligence, Jonas Mekas

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Michael Grandage and Jonas Mekas.

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English Landscape Painting, Ronald Harwood, David Ogilvy Legacy, Katrina van Grouw

Anne McElvoy talks to screenwriter Ronald Harwood about his new film Quartet.

• 45 mins

International Review

Matthew Sweet chairs an International Review edition of the programme.

• 45 mins

The Nation State, In the Republic of Happiness, William Paul Young

Are nation states relevant anymore? Plus best-selling evangelical US author W Paul Young.

• 45 mins

Ang Lee, The Dance of Death, Immigrant Groups and Culture, Angels

Anne McElvoy talks to Ang Lee and discusses the cultural history of angels.

• 45 mins

The Girl

Matthew discusses Hitchcock, Tarzan and Alasdair Gray.

• 45 mins

Bernard Rose, Public Inquiries, Tuberculosis, Mughal India

Philip Dodd meets Bernard Rose whose new film Boxing Day is inspired by a Tolstoy story.

• 45 mins

Michael Frayn, An English Affair

Matthew Sweet talks to Michael Frayn as a season of his drama begins on Radios 3 and 4.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Philip Dodd talks to Fiona Shaw about her performance of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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Philosophical Investigations

Rana Mitter looks at Wittgenstein, soft power and the 1980s.

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