Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher, whose recent roles include Willy Loman and Falstaff. Show more
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Essay writing, Tim Winton
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Jonathan Freedland, Wayne Kostenbaum and Maia Jenkins discuss the resurgence of the essay with Anne McElvoy. Also novelist Tim Winton, and when does populism becomes extremism? Show more
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South African Art: William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Gavin Jantjes.
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Philip Dodd is joined by artists William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes and Prof Stephen Chan to discuss South Africa's art, from prehistory to the present. Show more
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Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art
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With Chris Hannan on his new Birmingham Rep play about Enoch Powell, plus James Zirin on the Supreme Court in America and two artists on how they see war. Chris Harding presents. Show more
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Caine Prize, Ivo van Hove, Female desire
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Ivo van Hove on staging Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead at MIF, Lisa Taddeo on three women's sex lives and Shahidha Bari meets the 2019 Caine Prize-winner for African Writing. Show more
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An insider's view of war
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Ex-marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman talks with Iraq war political advisor Emma Sky, Shiromi Pinto's novel on Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva, and pop-up anatomy books. Show more
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Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
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Matthew Sweet and guests look at Iris Murdoch's thought and writing 100 years on from her birth. Show more
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Paul Nash, George Szirtes, Hungary 1956 and now
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Philip Dodd is joined by Dave McKean to explore Paul Nash's surreal versions of English landscape. Plus poet George Szirtes and writer Tibor Fischer on the Hungarian Revolution. Show more
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Artes Mundi Prize, Harriet Walter, Amitav Ghosh, Edmund Richardson
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With Catherine Fletcher and Owen Sheers on the Artes Mundi visual arts show, actress Harriet Walter on playing male theatrical roles and Amitav Ghosh on climate change in fiction. Show more
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate about the impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life, recorded in front of an audience as part of the 2011 BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival. Show more
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Whose Book Is it Anyway?
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Anne McElvoy and her guests explore the rise of reading in Britain, from the monasteries to the political pamphlet war to the rise of 'middle-brow' and niche publishing. Show more
A special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley, as Rana Mitter reflects on the writer and the books which helped the British like the idea of Britain. Show more
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Being Human Debate at Fact, Liverpool: Man and Animals
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Rana Mitter with Sarah Peverley, Charles Forsdick, Alasdair Cochrane, Eveline de Wolf, Michael Szollosy and an audience at Fact in Liverpool debate robots, humans and animals. Show more
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Being Human: Vernon Lee, Lying, Coma
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Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott discuss new research on supernatural fiction writer Vernon Lee with Francesco Ventrella. Plus what it means to lie and popular ideas of the 'coma'. Show more
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Theodore Zeldin, Mona Eltahawy
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With scholar Theodore Zeldin discussing his new book, entitled The Hidden Pleasures of Life, and journalist Mona Eltahawy on why the Middle East needs a sexual revolution. Show more
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From Blackface to Beyoncé
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Poet Hanif Abdurraqib's book recovers black performers such as Ellen Armstrong and Merry Clayton. He talks with Eclipse theatre founder Dawn Walton, Adjoa Osei and Matthew Sweet Show more
Cold War betrayals, a former MI6 Director of Operations and a real-life spy drama in Iraq - Rana Mitter hosts a conversation about espionage fact and fiction. Show more
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The Liverpool Biennial Debate
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Curator Manuela Moscoso, artist Xaviera Simmons, historian Diana Jeater, composer Neo Muyanga and Anne McElvoy look at how Liverpool's past has inspired new art commissions. Show more
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What we cherish and what we give away
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Matthew Sweet discusses the things we most value and what we give away to charity shops, looking at research that is part of the Being Human Festival taking place in November. Show more
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The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
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What does it mean to make art to commemorate conflict? Anne McElvoy speaks to artists Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, and other guests responsible for commissioning public art. Show more