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Night Waves

Mind Maps, Freud, Psychotherapy, Partition

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd discusses writing about Partition, the history of psychology, Freud and his daughter Anna, and psychotherapy and religion. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Howard Brenton
Interviewed Guest:
Moniza Alvi
Interviewed Guest:
Keith Laws
Interviewed Guest:
Clare Allan
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Appignanesi
Interviewed Guest:
Giles Fraser
Producer:
Luke Mulhall

Saturday Drama

The Gothic Imagination: Bloody Poetry

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

In Switzerland 1816, the myth of Frankenstein was created by Mary Shelley. Howard Brenton's 1984 play imagines the lives of those present, among them the poets Byron and Shelley. Show more

Contributors

Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Oliver Ryan
Mary Shelley:
Clare Corbett
George, the Lord Byron:
Patrick Kennedy
Claire Clairmont:
Sarah Ovens
Dr William Polidori:
Gareth Pierce

Genres

Start the Week

Bianca Jagger on human rights

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Pakistani novelist Fatima Bhutto, playwright Howard Brenton, human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger and academic Stephen Hopgood. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Bianca Jagger
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Hopgood
Interviewed Guest:
Fatima Bhutto
Interviewed Guest:
Howard Brenton
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Front Row

Tracey Thorn, Jekyll and Hyde, Howard Brenton on Magna Carta

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson, including Tracey Thorn on her new compilation of solo work, ITV's new drama Jekyll and Hyde reviewed and playwright Howard Brenton on Magna Carta. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Tracey Thorn
Interviewed Guest:
Greg Tate
Interviewed Guest:
Howard Brenton
Interviewed Guest:
Sally Woodcock
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Smith

Front Row

Howard Brenton, Knight of Cups, Olafur Eliasson, Dorothy Bohm

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Howard Brenton on Lawrence After Arabia, Christian Bale in Knight Of Cups, photographer Dorothy Bohm and Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Howard Brenton
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Muir
Interviewed Guest:
Dorothy Bohm
Interviewed Guest:
Olafur Eliasson
Presenter:
John Wilson
Producer:
Jack Soper

Spooks

Series 3

Episode 8

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC ThreeLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Available for years

A celebrity couple on the wane are terrified when their baby is kidnapped. They demand MI5 investigate, but soon MI5 learns that there's more to this kidnap than first appears. Show more

Spooks

Series 4

Episode 10

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC Three

Available for years

An ex-spy pays a visit to MI5 with a bomb and holds the team to ransom, demanding they produce evidence that proves the Security Services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales.

Spooks

Series 1

Episode 4

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC Three

Available for years

Anti-capitalist demonstrations intensify as President Bush prepares for a UK visit. Peter Salter is on an operation to infiltrate an anarchist group, but Tom suspects his motives. Show more

Spooks

Series 1

Episode 5

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC Three

Available for years

Disgraced MP Hampton Wilder's memoirs, written whilst in prison, could create a scandal big enough to bring down the government - and the manuscript has been leaked to the press. Show more

Free Thinking

TE Lawrence on stage, Jeremy Thorpe, Privacy

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble join Philip Dodd to discuss stage plays about the life of TE Lawrence. Plus John Preston discussing MP Jeremy Thorpe's downfall. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Howard Brenton
Interviewed Guest:
Adrian Noble
Interviewed Guest:
John Preston
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Bryant
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Beard
Producer:
Ruth Watts

Front Row

Denzel Washington; Howard Brenton; Leonard Cohen; Riccardo Chailly

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Presented by Samira Ahmed. Denzel Washington on his new film, action thriller The Equalizer, and Samira talks to Gramophone Record of the Year winner, conductor Riccardo Chailly. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Denzel Washington
Interviewed Guest:
Riccardo Chailly
Interviewed Guest:
Howard Brenton
Interviewed Guest:
Ruth Barnes