Rana Mitter is joined by Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves to explore the books which inspired Shakespeare from the Bible and classical stories to his contemporaries. Show more
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Night Waves
Orwell, Stoicism Week, Sue Webster and Gavin Turk on Glass Art
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Philip Dodd discusses Orwell and englishness, artists Gavin Turk and Sue Webster on working in glass, and Stoic Week. Show more
Start the Week
Life Is a Dream
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses free will and fate with Jesmyn Ward, Kim Brandstrup, Edith Hall and John Gray. Show more
Great Lives
Justin Marozzi on Herodotus
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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4 Extra Debut. Writer Justin Marozzi chooses the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus. With Professor Edith Hall and Matthew Parris. From 2018. Show more
Front Row
Sunken Cities, Han Kang, Sing Street, Christian Blackshaw
30 minutes
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Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds at the British Museum, 2016 Man Booker International winner Han Kang, Sing Street director John Carney and classical pianist Christian Blackshaw. Show more
Great Lives
Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball
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Professor Edith Hall explains her love for the life and work of American actress Lucille Ball. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more
Woman's Hour
Chipo Chung as Dido, Queen of Carthage
45 minutes
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Dido, Queen of Carthage is being performed for the first time by the RSC. Plus inspiring women in medicine and women drivers in Saudi Arabia. Show more
Start the Week
Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
43 minutes
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Discussion programme that sets the cultural agenda for the week. Mariella Frostrup talks to Hamid Dabashi, Edith Hall, Douglas Murray and Glenn Ligon. Show more
Woman's Hour
Dame Julie Moore; Lynne Segal; Ali Smith on Antigone
58 minutes
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Dame Julie Moore, Lynne Segal on The Perils and Pleasures of Ageing, and Ali Smith on rewriting Antigone for children. Jenni Murray presents the female perspective. Show more
Woman's Hour
Pensions, Objectifying men, Medusa
58 minutes
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What's the fascination of Medusa? Paying into your pension now, and what it means for your future. And is it hypocritical if women enjoy watching naked or half-naked men on telly? Show more
In Our Time
Thebes
47 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myths of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, as told by Athenian dramatists, and the times when Thebes dominated Greek history. Show more
In Our Time
Sappho
46 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Greek poet Sappho, one of antiquity's greatest exponents of lyric poetry. Show more
In Our Time
The Iliad
48 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of a crucial 40 days in the 10-year battle for Troy, framed by Achilles' anger first at his leader Agamenmon and then at his enemy Hector. Show more
In Our Time
Queen Zenobia
42 minutes
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Queen Zenobia, Empress of the Palmyrene Empire and leader of a rebellion against Ancient Rome. Show more
Free Thinking
A Brexit reading list
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Matthew Sweet is joined by Edith Hall, Chris Kissane, Elif Shafak and Alan Mendoza to consider what might be on a reading list to prepare for a post-Brexit world. Show more
Free Thinking
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Arts and cultural debate. From football, to Brexit, to the good life: Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university. Show more
Free Thinking
Kristin Scott Thomas as Electra, Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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With Rana Mitter. Andrew Roberts dicusses his new book on Napoleon, Edith Hall reviews Electra, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, and Katie Hill reviews a new Ai Weiwei exhibition. Show more
Free Thinking
Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edith Hall and Peter Frankopan explore the idea of success in drama, literature and history and how that translates to the contemporary world. Show more
Free Thinking
TS Eliot Prize, Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy talks to the newly-announced winner of the 2014 TS Eliot Prize. Plus playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz and classicist Edith Hall discussing Aeschylus's The Oresteia. Show more
Free Thinking
School Report - A Sense of Home, Beauty in Ancient Greece
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy hears from young people involved in the BBC's School Report Day. School children who have come to north east England from other countries describe what home means. Show more