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Nottingham Contemporary Art Debate
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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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TS Eliot Prize, Lisa Randall, New Architecture, Flooding
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Anne McElvoy is joined by Sarah Howe, winner of the 2015 TS Eliot Prize. Plus a conversation with physicist Lisa Randall as well as discussions about new architecture and flooding. Show more
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Anna Pavord: Gardens in Art, University
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Gardening writer Anna Pavord visits the Royal Academy exhibition Painting the Modern Garden and talks to Anne McElvoy about her new book Landskipping. Show more
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Screaming Lord Sutch on Stage, Margaret MacMillan
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James Graham talks to Anne McElvoy about his new play which puts Screaming Lord Sutch on stage. Plus Margaret MacMillan on whether individuals can make a difference to history. Show more
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Political Sketch Writing, Enclosure Acts, Emma Butcher on Branwell Bronte, Pushkin House Book Prize
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Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the style of the general election and the job of sketch writers. Plus Emma Butcher marking 200 years since Branwell Bronte was born. Show more
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Partition: Novelists' views of India and Pakistan now
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Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk borders and migration with Anne McElvoy, plus Gurindher Chadha on her film about Partition, Viceroy's House. Show more
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Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.
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Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum about Russian-Ukrainian history. Nick Tandavanitj and Rhiannon White discuss new dramas in Hull and Port Talbot. Show more
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Schiller's Mary Stuart, Gunter Grass, Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves
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With director Robert Icke on staging Mary Stuart, Preti Taneja on newly translated foreign fiction and Karen Leeder on Gunter Grass's last book. Plus a book by Rachel Reeves MP. Show more
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Davos Discussions, Shobana Jeyasingh, Barbers in concentration camps
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With Anne McElvoy. With a debate about topics explored at the 2017 World Economic Forum, research into barbers in WWII concentration camps and choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh. Show more
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Partition, Mohsin Hamid, Gurinder Chadha
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Presented by Anne McElvoy. With author Mohsin Hamid talking about migration, Mohsin Hamid, Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman discussing India's Partition, and director Gurinder Chadha. Show more
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High Society, Xinran and China's One-Child Policy, Decisive UK Elections
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Anne McElvoy presents. With a review of High Society at the Old Vic in London, writer Xinran discussing China's one-child policy and three historians' view of the general election. Show more
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2015 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year Debate
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As the 2015 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year is announced, Anne McElvoy chairs a debate with the finalists in front of an audience at Tate Modern. Show more
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Chalke Valley History Festival: Heroism v Failure
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David Starkey, Amanda Foreman and Saul David join Anne McElvoy for a debate about what teaches us most: heroism or failure. Recorded at the Chalke Valley History Festival. Show more
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Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
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Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik in conversation with Anne McElvoy, recorded with an audience at Pushkin House, plus Alexander Brodsky's pavilion. Show more
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Designing the future
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Shahidha Bari discusses design pioneers Enid Marx, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden, and looks at future design at the V&A with 2018 New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen. Show more
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Canada 150: Identity - Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson, Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk
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Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore images of Canada, including First Nations art, Anne of Green Gables on TV, and poems and art posted on Instagram and Twitter by Rupi Kaur. Show more
Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers on depicting changes to a London market and a new report into prosperity. Show more
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Macbeth on Film, James Shapiro, Barrie Keeffe
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Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro on 1606, Matthew Sweet, Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton on the new Macbeth film, and Barrie Keeffe on a revival of his 1977 play Barbarians. Show more
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What does Global Shakespeare Mean?
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Philip Dodd is joined by academic Preti Taneja, Professor David Schalkwyk, director Dominic Dromgoole and Professor Sonia Massai to discuss what global Shakespeare means. Show more