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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
Tony Sewell, director of Generating Genius, and Mike Grenier, co-founder of the slow education movement, discuss how time and technology are at the heart of 21st century education. 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
In front of an audience at Sage Gateshead, Professor Russell Foster delivers the opening lecture of Radio 3's 2017 Free Thinking Festival, on the theme of 'the speed of life'. 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
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Authors Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman are in conversation with Philip Dodd as part of a week of broadcasts marking the 2016 London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre. Show more
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Simon Heffer, New Generation Thinker Will Abberley, director of Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet to debate the ideas of poet Matthew Arnold. Show more
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Matthew Sweet explores science writing as the Royal Society Science Book Prize is awarded for the 30th year and explores Adrian Owen's major discovery in the field of neuroscience. Show more
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Mark Ravenhill and Matt Wolf on Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the National Theatre and the South Africa director Yaël Farber discusses her reworking of the Salomé story. Show more
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Matthew Sweet discusses the film My Cousin Rachel and explores revenge in Shakespeare and Greek drama with New Generation Thinker Islam Issa and author Natalie Haynes. Show more
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Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Helen Mort and academic Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull to discuss the language of love and the politics underpinning Marvell's poem. Show more
BBC historian David Hendy, poet Glyn Maxwell, biographer Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker of the Britten-Pears Foundation explore Britten's relationship with radio and television. Show more
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Christopher Harding is joined by novelist Yoko Tawada, film-maker Momoko Ando, chapbook editor Elmer Luke and Japanologist Alex Kerr. Show more
Author Michael Lewis joins Matthew Sweet to discuss his investigative methods and his latest book, which focuses on risk-taking in sport and on Wall Street. Show more
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Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Michele Roberts, who talks about her latest novel, The Walworth Beauty, which evokes Victorian London. Plus a history of dentistry. Show more
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Rana Mitter introduces the ten academics named as the New Generation Thinkers for 2016. They share interesting facts from their research with an audience at Hay Festival. Show more
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Matthew Sweet meets Icelandic writer Sjón and examines the art of Winifred Knights. Katie Roiphe looks at writers dying, and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson explores touch. Show more
British TV and film producer Tony Garnett is in conversation with Matthew Sweet about a career which encompasses the Wednesday Play for the BBC, This Life and Undercover. Show more
In a discussion held in front of an audience at the 2015 BBC Proms, David Hare discusses his career in playwriting and his memoirs with Matthew Sweet. Show more
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Landmark: Poets Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan and Professor Sarah Churchwell explore Walt Whitman's poem, with presenter Matthew Sweet. Show more
