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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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James Fenton discusses his career as a poet and journalist, Naomi Paxton reviews Suffragette, and Charles Moore and Kwasi Kwarteng reflect on Margaret Thatcher's legacy. Show more
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Anne McElvoy presents. With a debate about Ranter writings from the English Civil War, libertarianism today, artist Trevor Paglen and an essay on the Actresses' Franchise League. Show more
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Helaine Blumenfeld, whose new work is on display at Ely Cathedral, and indigenous Australian artist Dale Harding who is at the Liverpool Biennial talk about beauty and truth. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Leave No Trace, Rip It Up - Scottish pop at the National Museum of Scotland, One For Sorrow at the Royal Court Theatre, Tim Winton: The Shepherd's Hut, and Bedtime Stories. Show more
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Beauty from the Renaissance to the present. Painter Charlotte Joffe, philosopher Heather Widdows, and writer and historian Catherine Fletcher talk to Anne McElvoy. Show more
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What does the future look like for women working in the NHS? What can women leaders learn from Angela Merkel? Plus poet Deborah Alma and why we need more female songwriters. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Woman's Hour highlights. Young songwriters in a male-dominated industry, how the NHS has changed over the decades from a nurse's point of view, and novelist Anne Tyler. Show more
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Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose discuss motherhood and presenter Anne McElvoy looks at depictions of Mrs Noah with New Generation Thinker Daisy Black. Show more
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Arundhati Roy talks about literary translation, the subject of her WG Sebald lecture, with Preti Taneja, and Anne McElvoy investigates the UK's apparent language learning crisis. Show more
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US commentator Mark Lilla says truth is under attack. Anne McElvoy talks to 2018 New Generation Thinker Gulzaar Barn about medical trials, plus Owen Hatherley's European travels. Show more
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Anne McElvoy meets artist Mark Dion who studies our studying of animals - plus Virgina Woolf's insect studies. Show more
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David Willetts, Polly Toynbee, Baroness Simone Finn, Julia Black and Adrian Wooldridge join Anne McElvoy for a debate recorded with an audience at the LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0. Show more
TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong, performer Emma Frankland, GP and author Gavin Francis and philosopher Julian Baggini discuss the changing self with Anne McElvoy. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra examined by New Generation Thinker Islam Issa + Anne McElvoy talks to playwright Ella Hickson. Show more
Photographer Mika Ninagawa talks to Christopher Harding, and Stephen Dodd and Eiko Honda joins Anne McElvoy to explore concepts of nature. Plus the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Novelist Tomoyuki Hoshino, photographer Suzanne Mooney, writer/photographer Mariko Nagai and filmmaker Kyoko Miyake look at life in the city for the Heisei generations. Show more
Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, Rana Mitter and his guests Anne Appelbaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Syemour assess the legacy of Marxism today. Show more
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Anne McElvoy explores how we value the arts with sociologist and director of the London School of Economics Dr Craig Calhoun. Plus the winner of the 2015 Paul Foot Award. Show more
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Anne McElvoy is joined by Kazuo Ishiguro, who talks about his new novel. Greek scholar Oliver Taplin and playwright Roy Williams discuss the enduring appeal of Antigone. Show more
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Anne McElvoy asks what we mean by the idea of fairness. Plus novelist Tom McCarthy on his new work Satin Island and Asne Seierstad on her book about the Breivik massacre in Norway. Show more
