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Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

Matthew Sweet

Susannah Clapp

Lindsay Johns

Sir Richard Evans

David Aaronovitch

Eliane Glaser

Rachel Kushner

John Gallagher

Night Waves: The Amen Corner, Conspiracies and Democracy, John Gallagher, Rachel Kushner

The Amen Corner, Conspiracies and Democracy, John Gallagher, Rachel Kushner

11/06/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, The Amen Corner, Conspiracies and Democracy, John Gallagher, Rachel Kushner

With Matthew Sweet. Including a review of James's Baldwin's drama The Amen Corner.

With Matthew Sweet. Including a review of the play The Amen Corner, a debate on conspiracy theories, novelist Rachel Kushner and John Gallagher on 16th-century disguise.

With Matthew Sweet. Including a first night review of the National Theatre's revival of James Baldwin's drama The Amen Corner. It stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as the uncompromising pastor of a Harlem church. Susannah Clapp and Lindsay Johns review.

After urgent questions were asked in the House of Commons about the Bilderberg Conference, a meeting of international government ministers and global corporate leaders which took place in Watford over the weekend, Matthew Sweet asks whether conspiracy theories are the sign of a decayed or thriving democracy. Professor Sir Richard Evans, David Aaronovitch and Eliane Glaser are Matthew's guests.

John Gallagher is one of Radio 3 's New Generation Thinkers. Tonight he meditates on the pleasures and pitfalls of disguise for the sixteenth century traveller.

Matthew interviews Rachel Kushner whose latest novel, The Flamethrowers is about the art and radicalism of the 1970's.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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