Night Waves

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

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Childhood
Matthew Sweet and guests examine our current and past attitudes to childhood.
27 May 2013,45 mins
Wagner 200, Michael Landy, Prague
With Anne McElvoy. Including a discussion about Wagner and antisemitism.
23 May 2013,45 mins
Khaled Hosseini, Man Booker International Prize, Disgraced, the Future of Psychiatry
Khaled Hosseini, Man Booker International Prize, Disgraced and the future of psychiatry.
22 May 2013,45 mins
James Salter
Matthew Sweet talks to American novelist and short story writer James Salter.
21 May 2013,45 mins
Lee Smolin, Mafia, Not I, Inconceivable
Lee Smolin talks to Samira Ahmed about the way that the laws of physics change over time.
20 May 2013,45 mins
Acting Styles, Propaganda and Power, Jesse Norman
Anne McElvoy discusses the political legacy of Edmund Burke.
16 May 2013,45 mins
The Great Gatsby, Charles Correa, Political Movements
With architect Charles Correa, the film The Great Gatsby and political movements.
14 May 2013,45 mins
Public Enemy, FR Leavis, Tate Britain, Death
Matthew Sweet visits Tate Britain to examine a complete re-hang of the collection.
13 May 2013,45 mins
Melnikov House, Anat Admati, The Hothouse, The Rest is Noise
Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Russell Beale and John Simm about Pinter's The Hothouse.
09 May 2013,45 mins
Rothko Returns to Latvia, John Beddington
Rothko returns to Latvia; and former Government Chief Scientific Adviser John Beddington.
08 May 2013,45 mins
Peter Nichols, Darian Leader, Politics in Architecture
Rana Mitter talks to the playwright Peter Nichols about his Passion Play.
07 May 2013,45 mins
Terence Stamp
Matthew Sweet talks to actor, writer and international screen star Terence Stamp.
06 May 2013,45 mins
Future Warfare
Anne McElvoy and guests examine how the traditional rules of warfare are changing.
02 May 2013,45 mins
Billy Liar, Ellen Gallagher, Introverts & Extroverts, Michael Burleigh
Samira Ahmed looks back at John Schlesinger's film Billy Liar on its 50th anniversary.
01 May 2013,45 mins
Steve Jones, Tony Garnett, Margaret Mead
Tony Garnett; Steve Jones on the Bible; Peter Mandler and Kit Davies on Margaret Mead.
30 Apr 2013,45 mins
The Octoroon
Matthew Sweet is joined on stage at the Royal Stratford East by playwright Mark Ravenhill.
29 Apr 2013,45 mins
Simon Schama, America in Primetime, Here Lies Love, Basti
Presented by Anne McElvoy. Including an interview with Simon Schama.
25 Apr 2013,45 mins
Englishness
Philip Dodd and six guests discuss Englishness. What is it and is it a useful identity?
24 Apr 2013,45 mins
Othello, Richard Holmes, Insects, The Middle Classes
Rana Mitter presents a first-night review of the National Theatre's production of Othello.
23 Apr 2013,45 mins
The New Common Reader
Matthew Sweet examines the place of reading in a digital age.
22 Apr 2013,45 mins
Sheryl Sandberg, Doktor Glas, Revenge, Choucair
Anne McElvoy talks to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer.
18 Apr 2013,45 mins
Tanika Gupta, BC Johnson, Corin Throsby & Laurence Scott, Rick Gekoski
Tanika Gupta discusses her new play about late Victorian Indian immigrants to Britain.
17 Apr 2013,45 mins
Howard Brenton, BRICS Countries, Napoleon, Promised Land
Philip Dodd talks to Howard Brenton about his new play, The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei.
16 Apr 2013,45 mins
15/04/2013
Matthew Sweet presents a review of the new opera The Sunken Garden.
15 Apr 2013,45 mins
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher, with Dominic Sandbrook, Will Self, Peter Hitchens and Edwina Currie.
11 Apr 2013,45 mins
Oliver Stone, Chimamanda Adichie, Web Harvesting
Chimamanda Adichie, Oliver Stone, AS Byatt on web harvests, and a Twitter-inspired opera.
10 Apr 2013,45 mins
The Rijksmuseum
Matthew Sweet visits Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
09 Apr 2013,45 mins
Landmarks: The Making of the English Working Class
A landmark edition examining EP Thompson's book The Making of the English Working Class.
08 Apr 2013,45 mins
Silence, Geffrye Museum, Edward Petherbridge, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Anne McElvoy talks to writer and historian Diarmaid MacCulloch.
04 Apr 2013,45 mins
Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, Adam Rutherford, John Yorke
Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, genetics with Adam Rutherford and producer John Yorke.
03 Apr 2013,45 mins