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Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy

Matthew Sweet and guests debate the contemporary relevance of ideas of poet Matthew Arnold

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Partition: Novelists' views of India and Pakistan now

Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk to Anne McElvoy.

• 45 mins

Washing in Public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

Public pools, the 'steamie' and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

• 45 mins

Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the Kathe Kollwitz show in Birmingham.

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Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.

Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum and Serhii Plokhy about Russian-Ukrainian history.

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Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.

Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.

• 45 mins

Royal Society Science Book Prize. Adrian Owen. Science in India.

Matthew Sweet looks at the writing of science and the Royal Society Science Book Prize.

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Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World

Author Bernard MacLaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break.

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Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.

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Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.

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Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.

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The importance of networks; the art of dance

Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair.

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Blade Runner. Ghost Stories.

Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 and visits haunted places in Portsmouth

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Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

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Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty.

Shahidha Bari and guests debate the play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle and doubt.

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Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley.

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness.

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The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from The Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall.

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Landmark: Marnie

Matthew Sweet explores memory and Marnie, of Graham's novel and Hitchcock's film fame.

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Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0

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Young Marx, Marxism.

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

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Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner.

Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore and Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet.

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Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art.

Anne McElvoy looks at art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light-filled room

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Britten and Radio.

麻豆官网首页入口 Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.

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The pros and cons of Swearing

Comedian Janey Godley, historian John Gallagher, author Emma Byrne, poet Bridget Minamore.

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Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.

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Soviet Histories. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Svetlana Alexievich on Soviet oral history as literature, and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.

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Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Boris Akunin and Zinovy Zinik talk with Anne McElvoy, recorded at Pushkin House in London.

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Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest

Shahidha Bari and guests mark Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967.

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Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

麻豆官网首页入口 news head James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.

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