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Free Thinking

Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd and the writer Joanna Kavenna consider the challenges of art in an age of irony and the work of Kathe Kollwitz; Lawrence Norfolk rereads the poetry of John Ashbery. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Kavenna
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Breaking Free: Karl Kraus

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Novelists Jonathan Franzen and Lawrence Norfolk and literary historian Heide Kunzelmann join Philip Dodd to discuss Austrian satirist Karl Kraus and parallels with Trump's America. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Franzen
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Interviewed Guest:
Heide Kunzelmann
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Writers and their notebooks

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Lawrence Norfolk talks to AS Byatt and David Mitchell about their notebooks, and Samira Ahmed chairs a discussion with Wendy Cope, Bidisha and the British Library's Rachel Foss. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
A.S. Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
John Cooper Clarke
Interviewed Guest:
David Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Wendy Cope
Interviewed Guest:
Bidisha
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Foss
Producer:
Laura Thomas

Saturday Review

Rita, Sue and Bob Too; 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri; Lily Tuck; History In The Making; Britannia

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Rita Sue and Bob Too at The Royal Court, 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Lily Tuck's novel - Sisters, History in the Making at Alan Cristea Gallery, Britannia on TV. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Miranda Carter
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Delgado
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Front Row

Christoph Waltz, Treasure Island, Mozart in the Jungle, Unread e-Books

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Double Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz talks about on working with Tim Burton in Big Eyes and responds to rumours surrounding his role in the new James Bond film. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Christoph Waltz
Interviewed Guest:
Petroc Trelawny
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Pullinger

Front Row

Inherent Vice, Dara, Teen Film Tropes, Cotton to Gold

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Paul Thomas Anderson's film Inherent Vice reviewed, Dara at the National Theatre, teen film tropes and Cotton to Gold: Extraordinary Collections of the Industrial North West. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Sarah Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Interviewed Guest:
Charlie Lyne
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman
Interviewed Guest:
Cynthia Johnston
Interviewed Guest:
Shahid Nadeem
Interviewed Guest:
Tanya Ronder

Front Row

Baileys Shortlist, Gunter Grass, Dear Lupin, The Last Five Years

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

The announcement of the Baileys shortlist, Gunter Grass remembered, Dear Lupin letters on stage and a review of musical film The Last Five Years. With Samira Ahmed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Shami Chakrabarti
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Kehlmann
Interviewed Guest:
Charlie Mortimer
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Simkins
Interviewed Guest:
Jason Solomons

Night Waves

2013 Turner Prize Announcement, Candide Review, the Value of Letters, Can

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With the 2013 Turner Prize winner, a review of Bernstein's Candide, asking how letters give an insight into the creative mind, and experimental band Can. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Producer:
Laura Thomas
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Shenton
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Warman
Interviewed Guest:
Hermione Lee
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Garfield
Interviewed Guest:
Irmin Schmidt
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Norfolk
Interviewed Guest:
Alexis Petridis
Interviewed Guest:
John Jungclaussen