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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Lauren Laverne and guests discuss lies, secrets and whether the truth is overrated. Show more
Matthew Sweet is joined by MP Douglas Carswell, professor David Runciman, Eliane Glaser and Lynsey Hanley to discuss our mistrust of elites. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo, which is based on meetings between representatives from the PLO and Israel and Norway. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Philip Dodd is joined by Professor Paul Gilroy, who talks about the impact of his book There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Rana Mitter discusses a new history of the Holy Roman Empire by Peter H Wilson and debates Christianity today with Times Literary Supplement religion editor Rupert Shortt. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Samira Ahmed reviews an exhibition of Australian art at the Royal Academy, London, talks to actor Rory Kinnear about writing his debut play and reflects on the scientist as hero. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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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. Show more
45 minutes
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Anne McElvoy and novelist Julian Barnes discuss images of Russian cultural figures on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Plus the satire of Gogol and Erdman on the UK stage. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy and Afua Hirsch, Graham Bartram, Andrew Rosindell, Ash Sarkar and John Bew explore the history and future of the Union Jack in a year which has seen the Brexit vote. Show more
Anne McElvoy and guests explore the changing idea of the American Dream as well as America First, focusing on how these are represented in political rhetoric, art and fiction. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy talks to Juliet Michaelson, Liam Byrne, John Redwood and Luke Johnson and considers the arguments in new books from Yanis Varoufakis and Thomas Piketty. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Anne McElvoy explores bringing back the word beauty in arguments about the countryside with Dame Fiona Reynolds and considers an exhibition of English beauties at the Bowes Museum. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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With Anne McElvoy. Including Shelina Janmohamed on the modern Muslims she calls Generation M, Jewish identity in three new novels and a discussion on illustrator Edward Ardizzone. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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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
