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Free Thinking

Yaa Gyasi, Daniel Levitin, Peter Bazalgette, James Bartholomew on clarity, civility and strong states

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Philip Dodd. With debates about empathy, rigorous thinking and the welfare state, plus writer Yaa Gyaasi on the importance of home for Africans and African-Americans. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Levitin
Interviewed Guest:
James Bartholomew
Interviewed Guest:
Yaa Gyasi
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Dodd

Great Lives

Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for over a year

Lord Andrew Adonis chooses Victorian engineer, aka ‘The Sewer King’, Sir Joseph Bazalgette. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Adonis
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette

Front Row

Angela Gheorghiu; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Cultural Exchange - Peter Bazalgette

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu, a review of the film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Peter Bazalgette makes his selection for the Cultural Exchange. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette
Interviewed Guest:
Angela Gheorghiu

Front Row

The rise and rise of Event Cinema

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Kirsty Lang hears from Helen McCrory, Richard Eyre, Lesley Manville, Alan Ayckbourn and others about the flourishing phenomenon of event cinema. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Eric Fellner
Interviewed Guest:
David Sabel
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Eyre
Interviewed Guest:
Lesley Manville
Interviewed Guest:
Helen McCrory
Interviewed Guest:
Lorne Campbell
Interviewed Guest:
Alan Ayckbourn
Interviewed Guest:
Hasan Bakhshi
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette
Producer:
Sarah Johnson

Front Row

Black Mass, The Homecoming at 50, Peter Bazalgette on arts funding, Paul Ruddock

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Michael Carlson reviews Black Mass with Johnny Depp as mobster 'Whitey' Bulger. Pinter's The Homecoming 50 years on. Arts Council England's Peter Bazalgette on government funding. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Carlson
Interviewed Guest:
Jamie Lloyd
Interviewed Guest:
John Simm
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Billington
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Ruddock
Producer:
Elaine Lester

Front Row

Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games review; Peter Bazalgette

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The category shortlists for the 2014 Costa Book Awards; Meera Syal on her new stage role; the latest Hunger Games film reviewed; The Arts Council's Peter Bazalgette. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Ellie Bury
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Sophia McDougall
Interviewed Guest:
Meera Syal
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette

Front Row

Steve Coogan, Ruth Rendell's Cultural Exchange, Peter Bazalgette

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news. Steve Coogan on his career, the Leveson Inquiry and creating his Alan Partridge movie. Plus, Ruth Rendell selects Handel's oratorio Solomon for Cultural Exchange. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
Steve Coogan
Interviewed Guest:
Ruth Rendell
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette

Front Row

Siobhan Davies, Peter Bazalgette, Lost in London, Royal Albert Hall ticket resales

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sir Peter Bazalgette on his four years as the Chair of Arts Council England; choreographer Siobhan Davies on her new work exploring mind and body; Woody Harrelson's one-take film. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette
Interviewed Guest:
Siobhan Davies
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Cole
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Lyttelton
Interviewed Guest:
Jason Solomons
Presenter:
John Wilson