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R3Arts: Population Growth Throughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Anne McElvoy and guests discuss mega-cities, sustainability and the ethics of living together.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Scientific BreakthroughsThroughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Anne McElvoy asks to what extent are science and medicine shaping our lives and what breakthroughs are shaping the future?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: GreedThroughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Philip Dodd and guests look at greed in its many forms, accompanied Peter Marinker reading Falstaff, Faustus and others.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Artistic EndeavoursThroughout this week, Night Waves examines some of the major cultural forces shaping the 21st century. Matthew Sweet and guests attempt to define the zeitgeist via the cultural artefacts and moments of 2011.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Vaclav Havel, Christopher HitchensIn a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel, with interviews, reviews and analysis from the Night Waves archives.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
International Review:Matthew Sweet entertains guests from Ghana, Italy, India and Egypt to discuss Saladin, a new book by Anne-Marie Eddé, the legacy of the Crusades, Nanni Moretti's latest film We have a Pope and Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Is Politics Dead?As Europe struggles to manage the current financial crisis we are seeing un-elected technocrats replace populist leaders and ratings agencies seemingly wielding increasing power. Philip Dodd and guests discuss whether the pursuit of economic stability is downgrading democracy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Were the Luddites Right?Updated corrected audio: Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddites to mark their 200th anniversary. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Charles JencksLandscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled Reclaiming the Universe. Jencks argues that understanding the universe is too important to be left to scientists and theologians, and wants us to connect to pre-historic ideas about the cosmos, present in monuments such as Stonehenge.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sarah-Jayne BlakemoreNeuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.
Teenagers often act on impulse, are lazy, emotional and get into trouble with the police and parents. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a leading expert on teenage brains. Using recent research about the radical changes taking place in the adolescent brain, she argues it's time to rethink our attitudes towards youth and the place of teenagers in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Susie OrbachPsychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change. Susie is Britain's most high-profile pyschotherapist, whose book Fat is a Feminist Issue revolutionised the way we understand our bodies. She co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre, has been a consultant for The World Bank and NHS, and is an advocate for body diversity and emotional literacy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The impact of a future energy crisis on our way of lifeHow will our world change as traditional energy supplies shrink and climate change forces us to use less fossil fuels? Should we return to a locally-focused pre-modern lifestyle where travel is a luxury for the few, will conflict over declining resources destabilise the globe, or will science save the day?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Aditya ChakraborttyEconomist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society. Over the past 30 years governments of every political hue have promised that great prizes will follow economic change, whilst parts of society have been effectively written off. So argues Aditya Chakrabortty, economics leader writer at The Guardian. He believes even the newly fashionable zeal for a manufacturing revival will do little to help and calls for a radical solution.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Can We Stop the Mania for Change?Philip Dodd chairs a debate on the obsession with change, at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. Panel includes the film-maker Molly Dineen and the Rev Dr Giles Fraser.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to ImproveJulian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and genetic selection at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Linda ColleyLeading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how we have dealt with periods of dramatic change in the past and how history can help us to understand change today.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Germaine GreerGermaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kevin FongKevin Fong, who presents BBC2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, gives a talk at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011calling for a second Space Age.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Foreign Secretary William HagueWilliam Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's role in this transforming world order.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rev Dr Giles FraserRev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011 on the crisis of commitment in our society.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Francis WellsOne of the world's top heart surgeons, Francis Wells, discusses the future of the heart, his work at the cutting-edge of surgery, and his fascination with Da Vinci at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts:Wikipedia Founder Jimmy WalesWikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with a lecture on how the internet will continue to radically change our worldListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Chris PattenThe full Night Waves interview with ex-Hong Kong Governor and new chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet artDavid Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet. Philip Dodd asks whether we're living through a golden age of science. And Rana Mitter looks at the architects of the Russian Revolution with Richard Cork and Clementine Cecil.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of NovelistsPhilip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world of famous writers. Matthew Sweet discusses the place of the village in the British psyche and Juliet Gardiner reviews the play Jumpy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann DuffyThis week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save or spend? Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers discusses self-deception with Matthew Sweet. Illustrator Quentin Blake tells Rana about his latest work for hospitals. And poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy talks to Anne McElvoy about bees.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be humanJuiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris. Philip Dodd reviews a new biography of the writer Charles Dickens. Anne McElvoy looks at how the line between humanity and technology is becoming increasingly blurred and historian Joanna Bourke tells Matthew Sweet What it Means to be Human.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Robert Harris, King Lear, The British EmpireAnne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current banking crisis. Critic Susannah Clapp reviews King Lear, starring Tim Pigott-Smith. And Philip Dodd is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng and Richard Gott to discuss their views on the British Empire.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Lars von Trier SpecialIn this special edition of the podcast, Matthew Sweet's full interview with the Danish director Lars von Trier, discussing his long and varied career.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts:Private Eye,Grief,Imran Khan,Thomas FriedmanAnne McElvoy talks to Adam Macqueen as Private Eye turns 50. Matthew Sweet discusses Mike Leigh's new play Grief and talks to Imran Khan anout his ambition to lead Pakistan and Philip Dodd in conversation with Gideon Rachman, Anatole Lieven and Pullitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman - who has co-written a book with the title That Used to Be US: What Went Wrong With America and How It Can Come Back.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentaryRana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to critic David D’Arcy about Andrew Rossi's documentary film Page One and to Anna Funder about her new novel All that I Am. And a series of screenwriter’s lectures at BAFTA and the British Film Institute is celebrating the importance of screenwriters and providing a forum in which they can’t have credit for their work stolen by the director.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 12 September 2011Poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in the first ever Proms Poetry competition and Rabbi Julia Neuberger explores the piano’s literary life across the ages in conversation with Anne McElvoy,Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 5 September 2011Biographer John Carey and author Meg Rosoff join Ian McMillan to discuss one of Britain's greatest post-war novelists - William Golding. And acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little completes our series of events in which musicians from this year’s Proms season introduce and discuss their favourite works of fiction and poetry.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 2 September 2011The death of Prince Albert 150 years ago inspired the creation of the home of the Proms - the Royal Albert Hall. Historians Kate Williams and Dan Cruickshank join Matthew Sweet to reassess the Prince Consort and his legacy "the Albertopolis".
And cellist Matthew Barley is the third guest in a four-part Proms Plus series in which musicians from this year's Proms season introduce their favourite works of fiction and poetry. Susan Hitch hosts.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Proms Plus Literary: Dante and Andrew LittonHistorical novelist Sarah Dunant and Margaret Keane, author of ‘Inferno’, discuss Dante’s Divine Comedy. Leading American conductor Andrew Litton introduces a personal choice of readings from their favourite fiction and poetry.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 17 August 2011Matthew Sweet talks to Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar winning screenwriter of The Pianist and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Neil Brand, doyen of silent film pianists, discussing the role of music in film â from The Keystone Kops to indie films.
Matthew also talks to comedians Natalie Haynes and Steve Punt to unveil and perform their favourite humorous writing from down the ages and asks what makes literary comic gold?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 11 August 2011Tariq Ali and Daniel Karlin discuss the writer Kipling and authors Val McDermid and Louise Welsh explore the explosion in Scandinavian crime writing with Rana Mitter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 3 August 2011Playwright Mark Ravenhill and actor and writer Simon Callow discuss Faust with Matthew Sweet and Ian Mcmillan is in conversation with the conductor Robert Hollingworth about his favourite works of fiction and poetry.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Proms Plus Literary 25 July 2011Kate Mosse and Edmund de Waal discuss great French literary classics with Matthew Sweet, and Peggy Reynolds talks to Rana Mitter about the cello in literature, with musical illustrations.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arianna Huffington, Bertrand Tavernier & Hollywood portraitureArianna Huffington talks about the launch of her online newspaper, the Huffington Post, in the UK. Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier discusses his new historical drama set in the 16th century. Terry Charman and Kate Adie look at the Imperial War Museum in its 75th year. And a survey of Hollywood portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Light Fantastic, Raymond Tallis, Libya, New Generation ThinkerHighlights from a Night Waves special as part of the Light Fantastic Festival weekend. Raymond Tallis and Armand Leroi discuss Raymond's new book, Aping Mankind. Paul Cartledge looks at the cultural collateral damage caused by military action against Gadaffi. New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge on cultural responses to genocide memorial sites in Rwanda.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Margaret Drabble, Emma Rothschild ,Stanley Spencer exhibition and Authenticity and the InternetNightwaves looks at the subject of internet anonymity, visits a new exhibition of work by Stanley Spencer in Warwickshire, and empire, enlightenment, and emotion – all come together in an eighteenth-century Scottish townhouse in a new book from historian Emma RothschildListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Arundhati Roy, Siddharta Deb and RetromaniaAcclaimed novelists Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb look at India as an emerging superpower. Kevin Macdonald discusses his film made up of footage from ordinary people. American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney explains why he wrote a play about a PR company. And is Retromania really that new?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Sherry Turkle, Candace Allen, Amnesty International, SennaSherry Turkle on how new technology is changing the way we think and form relationships. Candace Allen reviews an exhibition of photographs, postcards and journalism of US lynchings. Director Asif Kapadia discusses his award-winning documentary about the controversial racing driver Ayrton Senna. A discussion about the changing role of Amnesty International.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: NightwavesAnne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book which explores the resurgence of the Muslim veil and
to three veteran war reporters who feature in a new Imperial War Museum North exhibition about the correspondent's life behind the frontline and the changing nature of war reporting. With Kate Adie, Michael Nicholson and Eric Thirer.
As London’s Jewish Museum launches its Entertaining the Nation exhibition, Matthew is joined by actress and comedian ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal SassoonFrancis Fukuyama talks about his new book. A discussion about train murders. Susannah Clapp on immersive theatre. And interview with Vidal Sassoon.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Malcolm X, Diana Athill and Ai Wei WeiAn overview of the legacy of Malcolm X, Diana Athill on her short stories, a new film from Chad and a celebration of the work of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of IranMolly Dineen discusses her first collection of documentaries on DVD. Brian Christian talks about his book, The Most Human Human. A discussion on Bin Laden. Abbas Milani on his biography of the Shah of Iran.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
R3Arts: Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & PakistanEdward St Aubyn talks about his new book, At Last, the final in the Patrick Melrose series. Anatol Lieven discusses his new book, Pakistan, A Hard Country. Max Clifford is on the panel of guests talking about Super Injunctions and we talk about the world of the LudditeListen | Listen in your iPhone | |