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A Theory of Everything?

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion show. Tom Sutcliffe on a theory of everything with scientists Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose and Suzie Sheehy, and novelist Joanna Kavenna. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Marcus du Sautoy
Interviewed Guest:
Suzie Sheehy
Interviewed Guest:
Roger Penrose
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Kavenna
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: HG Wells

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

As the 2016 London Literature Festival opens, Matthew Sweet chairs an HG Wells discussion with Louisa Treger, Mark Blacklock, Joanna Kavenna and Christopher Priest and an audience. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Louisa Treger
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Blacklock
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Kavenna
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Priest
Producer:
Zahid Warley

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

2015 Festival

Landmark: Angela Carter

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd explores the writing of Angela Carter with critic Christopher Frayling, novelists Joanna Kavenna and Natasha Pulley and writer Susannah Clapp. The Reader is Emily Woof. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Kavenna
Interviewed Guest:
Natasha Pulley
Interviewed Guest:
Susannah Clapp
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Frayling
Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Reader:
Emily Woof
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Mystics and Reality

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Artist Dorothy Cross, author Joanna Kavenna, cosmologist Jo Dunkley and New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson join Matthew Sweet for a programme exploring mysticism and reality. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Dorothy Cross
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Kavenna
Interviewed Guest:
Jo Dunkley
Interviewed Guest:
Edmund Richardson

Woman's Hour

Late Night Woman's Hour: Thoughts, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Duration: 57 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Exploring our unthinkable thoughts, our sexual fantasies and our inner lives. With Jane Garvey. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Kavenna
Interviewed Guest:
Madeleine Bunting
Interviewed Guest:
Annabel Pitcher
Interviewed Guest:
Brett Kahr