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New critical biographies of Plath and Heaney and a reissue of Anne Sexton's poems prompt a conversation about the poetic life. Plus Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's new novel. Show more
Anne McElvoy chairs a discussion exploring protest, foreign policy, intervention and peace-making. She is joined by Andrey Kurkov, Gabrielle Rifkind and John Kampfner. Show more
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Philip Dodd talks to artist Olafur Eliasson and Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov and discusses Soviet culture with Mary Dejevsky and Zinovy Zinik. Show more
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Anne McElvoy and novelist Julian Barnes discuss images of Russian cultural figures on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Plus the satire of Gogol and Erdman on the UK stage. Show more
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Ann Wroe joins Anne McElvoy for an exploration of light in art from Blackpool to the South Downs. Plus Dan Flavin's art at Ikon in Birmingham and extreme solar weather. Show more
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Anne McElvoy talks to Juliet Michaelson, Liam Byrne, John Redwood and Luke Johnson and considers the arguments in new books from Yanis Varoufakis and Thomas Piketty. Show more
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Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni talks to Anne McElvoy about her country's built environment its impact on the behaviour of its citizens. Plus the politics of judging book prizes. Show more
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Anne McElvoy considers Sicily as the island's multifaceted history is celebrated at the British Museum. Plus Tom Stoppard talking about 175 years of the London Library. Show more
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Anne McElvoy is joined by novelists AL Kennedy, Tahmima Anam and Alain de Botton to talk about depicting relationships across cities and continents. Show more
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Anne McElvoy explores German culture with actress Haydn Gwynne, writer Simon Stephens, former British Museum director Neil MacGregor and crime writer Volker Kutscher. Show more
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Anne McElvoy explores bringing back the word beauty in arguments about the countryside with Dame Fiona Reynolds and considers an exhibition of English beauties at the Bowes Museum. Show more
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Anne McElvoy is joined by curators and artists and an audience at Nottingham Contemporary to discuss the life of an artist today as Tate Modern opens its new wing. Show more
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Anne McElvoy evaluates the short fiction of German writer Walter Benjamin. Plus a discussion about the propaganda creation of a post-revolutionary Soviet 'superwoman' in 1917. Show more
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Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane to discusses our ideas of citizenship. Plus Matthew Wall on betting patterns and the 2016 EU referendum. Show more
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Victoria Donovan exploring the links between Wales and Ukraine, and Emma Schofield on Welsh fiction since devolution. Plus writer Lidudumalingani. Show more
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Anne McElvoy looks ahead to the Rio Olympics, exploring Brazilian culture with Luiz Eduardo Soares and Edward King. Plus discussions about saying the unsayable and addiction. Show more
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Anne McElvoy discusses Aphra Behn's play The Rover. Plus New York Times CEO Mark Thompson on political language and Iain Sinclair talking about the Norman Conquest. Show more
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With Anne McElvoy. Including Shelina Janmohamed on the modern Muslims she calls Generation M, Jewish identity in three new novels and a discussion on illustrator Edward Ardizzone. Show more
Anne McElvoy hosts a debate about success, asking what is both good and bad about competition. With Margaret Heffernan, Matthew Syed, Cath Bishop and Christopher Frayling. Show more
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate exploring the way medical advances appear to be changing the nature of family life. With Anne Fine, Tobias Jones and Sarah Cunningham-Burley. Show more
