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Presented by Philip Dodd. With the winner of 2013's Man Booker, discussing the new National Theatre head, the US Government shutdown, a Paul Klee show and a book about the Kremlin. Show more
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Philip Dodd is joined by singer Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys. He discusses the influence of his native North East, his move to London and working with musical partner Chris Lowe. Show more
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Philip Dodd discusses writing about Partition, the history of psychology, Freud and his daughter Anna, and psychotherapy and religion. Show more
With Philip Dodd, including new social media's relationship to democracy with William Dutton and Tom Standage, photographer Dayanita Singh and Verdi's debt to Shakespeare. Show more
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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
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Democracy in the Egyptian revolution, Diana Quick on playing controlling women, Laura Knight and the reaction to modernism and technology and alienation in the modern city. Show more
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Philip Dodd reviews the new production of Britten's Gloriana at the ROH, talks to TJ Clarke about Lowry and asks whether it is possible to be morally neutral about pornography. Show more
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Philip discusses loyalty in public life, explores the world of Japanese erotic prints and talks to the historian Tom Holland and the photographer, Martin Parr. Show more
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Philip Dodd talks to Simon Schama about his History of the Jews and to Beeban Kidron about her new documentary exploring the impact of the internet on children and young people. Show more
Playwright Athol Fugard and actor Dame Janet Suzman join Philip Dodd to reflect on Nelson Mandela's life. David Goodhart and Edward Mortimer discuss immigration in the UK. Show more
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Philip Dodd talks to biologist Richard Dawkins and to artist Tacita Dean. Plus Susannah Clapp on director Vicky Featherstone's debut production at London's Royal Court Theatre. Show more
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Philip Dodd discusses the relevance of Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, reviews an exhibition of the work of George Grosz and talks to Simon Heffer about the Victorians. Show more
In an interview recorded at the 2012 Free Thinking festival, Irish writer Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd about his own life, his ideas and thoughts on literature. Show more
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Baroness Shirley Williams, Professor Roy Foster, Nick Cohen, Duncan Brack, Bea Campbell and Philip Dodd discuss George Dangerfield's book The Strange Death of Liberal England. Show more
Bettany Hughes, Sir Richard J Evans and John Hall consider whether periods of turmoil are seen as revolutionary at the time or whether we only understand change retrospectively. Show more
Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris join Philip Dodd and audience at Sage Gateshead to discuss time and place in modern Britain. Show more
Harriet Harman, first elected a Labour MP in 1982, talks to Philip Dodd about championing women's rights and sustaining a political career in a fast-changing political world. Show more
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Philip Dodd is joined by artists William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes and Prof Stephen Chan to discuss South Africa's art, from prehistory to the present. Show more
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Philip Dodd is joined by novelist Linda Grant and writer-director Stephen Poliakoff to discuss post-Second World War Britain. Show more
Zadie Smith talks to Philip Dodd about dance, depicting teenage friendships and US/UK differences as her novel Swing Time is published in Britain and BBC TV dramatises her book NW. Show more
