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Night Waves

Flagship arts and ideas programme, featuring discussions between academics and artists

  1. 6 days left to listen
    Bidisha talks to director Danny Boyle about his new film Slumdog Millionaire.
  2. 5 days left to listen
    Mathew Sweet explores our changing attitudes to pleasure and our motives for seeking it.
  3. Matthew Sweet presents more highlights from the 2008 Free Thinking festival of ideas.
  4. Philip Dodd and guests debate the state of global capitalism.
  5. Matthew Sweet and guests discuss why operas are finding their way onto the big screen.
  6. Tony Benn gives a talk on the value of experience at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2008
  7. Anne McElvoy talks to Gilles Kepel about his vision for the future of Islam and the West.
  8. Philip Dodd asks what Milton's classic text Samson Agonistes tells us about terrorism.
  9. Rana Mitter talks to India's greatest living artist MF Husain, known as India's Picasso.
  10. Matthew Sweet with Free Thinking 2008 highlights, including Paul Preston and Mark Haddon.

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