1antimuzak
Wednesday 14th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Cuba, Cold War and RAF Fylingdales.
Ian McEwan's new novel sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He joins Michael Mulvihill, Dr Jessica Douthwaite and Anne McElvoy to discuss UK Cold War fears.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Cuba, Cold War and RAF Fylingdales.
Ian McEwan's new novel sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He joins Michael Mulvihill, Dr Jessica Douthwaite and Anne McElvoy to discuss UK Cold War fears.
2antimuzak
Thursday 15th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
To Live Forever.
Karel Capek's 1922 play about a famous singer who has lived for over 300 years was adapted into an opera by the composer Leoš Janacek and premiered in 1926. George Bernard Shaw's play Back to Methuselah premiered in 1922 also looks at human destiny and ideas about long life. As Welsh National Opera's new touring production of The Makropulos Affair by Janacek opens in Cardiff, Matthew Sweet and guests New Generation Thinker Prof Sarah Dillon, classicist Charlotte Higgins and philosopher Rebecca Roache explore the quest for endless youth in literature, film and myth and discussions of the idea by philosophers including Bernard Williams.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
To Live Forever.
Karel Capek's 1922 play about a famous singer who has lived for over 300 years was adapted into an opera by the composer Leoš Janacek and premiered in 1926. George Bernard Shaw's play Back to Methuselah premiered in 1922 also looks at human destiny and ideas about long life. As Welsh National Opera's new touring production of The Makropulos Affair by Janacek opens in Cardiff, Matthew Sweet and guests New Generation Thinker Prof Sarah Dillon, classicist Charlotte Higgins and philosopher Rebecca Roache explore the quest for endless youth in literature, film and myth and discussions of the idea by philosophers including Bernard Williams.
3antimuzak
Tuesday 20th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Lindisfarne Gospels and New Discoveries.
A dig at Lindisfarne this September aims to find out more about the early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings. New Generation Thinker David Petts from Durham University shares his findings on Holy Island. Professor Michelle Brown has been looking closely at the text and illustrations in the Lindisfarne Gospels and the culture of producing books in Anglo-Saxon England. Plus, as the gospels produced by Eadfrith, a monk at Lindisfarne who became bishop in c. 698 until his death in c. 722, go on show at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, New Generation Thinker Jake Campbell Morris writes a poem to mark their return to the north east. Presented by Anne McElvoy.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Lindisfarne Gospels and New Discoveries.
A dig at Lindisfarne this September aims to find out more about the early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings. New Generation Thinker David Petts from Durham University shares his findings on Holy Island. Professor Michelle Brown has been looking closely at the text and illustrations in the Lindisfarne Gospels and the culture of producing books in Anglo-Saxon England. Plus, as the gospels produced by Eadfrith, a monk at Lindisfarne who became bishop in c. 698 until his death in c. 722, go on show at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, New Generation Thinker Jake Campbell Morris writes a poem to mark their return to the north east. Presented by Anne McElvoy.
4antimuzak
Tuesday 27th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Ibsen.
The individual versus the masses is at the heart of Enemy of the People. A bank manager speculating with his customers' money is the story told in John Gabriel Borkman. Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters have written new versions of these Ibsen plays. They join Norwegian actor and director Kåre Conradi and presenter Anne McElvoy to explore the ways in which Ibsen's characters and dramas resonate now.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Ibsen.
The individual versus the masses is at the heart of Enemy of the People. A bank manager speculating with his customers' money is the story told in John Gabriel Borkman. Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters have written new versions of these Ibsen plays. They join Norwegian actor and director Kåre Conradi and presenter Anne McElvoy to explore the ways in which Ibsen's characters and dramas resonate now.
5antimuzak
Thursday 29th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
John Cowper Powys.
An anarchist, follower of Thomas Hardy, who wrote philosophical explorations of solitude, a defence of sensuality and Welsh mythology and the Dorset landscape in his novels - John Cowper Powys was born 150 years ago (8 October 1872 - 17 June 1963). Matthew Sweet discusses his life and writing with Margaret Drabble, John Gray, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
John Cowper Powys.
An anarchist, follower of Thomas Hardy, who wrote philosophical explorations of solitude, a defence of sensuality and Welsh mythology and the Dorset landscape in his novels - John Cowper Powys was born 150 years ago (8 October 1872 - 17 June 1963). Matthew Sweet discusses his life and writing with Margaret Drabble, John Gray, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring.
6antimuzak
Wednesday 5th October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Female power and influence past and present.
Kamila Shamsie's new novel Best of Friends follows two women from Pakistan who take different routes to power. Rona Munro's new plays explore the courts of James IV and Mary Stuart. Anne McElvoy talks to them about power and influence past and present.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Female power and influence past and present.
Kamila Shamsie's new novel Best of Friends follows two women from Pakistan who take different routes to power. Rona Munro's new plays explore the courts of James IV and Mary Stuart. Anne McElvoy talks to them about power and influence past and present.
7antimuzak
Tuesday 18th October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
British Academy Book Prize 2022.
Katie Booth, Harald Jähner, Marit Kapla, James Poskett, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Jing Tsu talk to Rana Mitter about being shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
British Academy Book Prize 2022.
Katie Booth, Harald Jähner, Marit Kapla, James Poskett, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Jing Tsu talk to Rana Mitter about being shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize.
8antimuzak
Wednesday 26th October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire.
A pandemic, crumbling empire and new nationhood are the backdrop for Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, Nights of Plague. Pamuk and Rana Mitter are joined by historian and BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot and literary scholar Keya Anjaria to discuss the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire.
A pandemic, crumbling empire and new nationhood are the backdrop for Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, Nights of Plague. Pamuk and Rana Mitter are joined by historian and BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot and literary scholar Keya Anjaria to discuss the end of the Ottoman Empire.
10antimuzak
Wednesday 16th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
George Bernard Shaw.
Anne McElvoy and her guests discuss the arguments and themes explored in the plays of George Bernard Shaw, and the resonance his work has to this day.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
George Bernard Shaw.
Anne McElvoy and her guests discuss the arguments and themes explored in the plays of George Bernard Shaw, and the resonance his work has to this day.
11antimuzak
Thursday 17th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Landmark: Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
Tonight's edition is devoted to one of the landmarks of European literature - Marcel Proust's gigantic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, perhaps best known in English as In Search of Lost Time. Matthew Sweet gathers together four Proust fans from different backgrounds - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, the psychotherapist, Jane Haynes, Christopher Prendergast, who has edited the latest translation of the book and from France, the writer, Marie Darrieussecq.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Landmark: Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
Tonight's edition is devoted to one of the landmarks of European literature - Marcel Proust's gigantic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, perhaps best known in English as In Search of Lost Time. Matthew Sweet gathers together four Proust fans from different backgrounds - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, the psychotherapist, Jane Haynes, Christopher Prendergast, who has edited the latest translation of the book and from France, the writer, Marie Darrieussecq.
12antimuzak
Tuesday 3rd January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant.
Laurence Scott and Kirsty Gunn join Claire Harman and Shahidha Bari to explore the work of Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant, and what these authors have to tell listeners about the art of short story writing.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant.
Laurence Scott and Kirsty Gunn join Claire Harman and Shahidha Bari to explore the work of Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant, and what these authors have to tell listeners about the art of short story writing.
13antimuzak
Wednesday 11th January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Phillis Wheatley.
New Generation Thinkers Christienna Fryar and Xine Yao discuss the life of the enslaved American poet Phillis Wheatley with playwright Adeola Solanke, and academics Montaz Marché and Brigitte Fielder.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Phillis Wheatley.
New Generation Thinkers Christienna Fryar and Xine Yao discuss the life of the enslaved American poet Phillis Wheatley with playwright Adeola Solanke, and academics Montaz Marché and Brigitte Fielder.
14antimuzak
Tuesday 17th January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Wife of Bath.
Chaucer's widow and cloth maker is one of three given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers including Zadie Smith, Patience Agbabi, and Caroline Bergvall. Her guests include Marion Turner, author of a new book about the Wife of Bath.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Wife of Bath.
Chaucer's widow and cloth maker is one of three given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses her narrative to ask who has had the advantage in setting out the stories of women - "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" Shahidha Bari explores the influence of Chaucer's creation and the different modern versions created by writers including Zadie Smith, Patience Agbabi, and Caroline Bergvall. Her guests include Marion Turner, author of a new book about the Wife of Bath.
15antimuzak
Thursday 26th January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Holocaust Memorial 2023.
Ways of remembering and acts of forgetting. Matthew Sweet hears histories and stories of the Holocaust; intimate family testimonies of loss, remembering in writing, a pilgrimage to a shrine for the forgotten and the traces of murdered children. Richard Zimler talks about his latest book, The Incandescent Threads, Stuart Taberner reflects on the ways modern writers connect to the Holocaust. Victoria Biggs on a pilgrimage site close to a place of mass murder and Daniel Lee on the drawings left behind by the children of the Maison d'Izieu.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Holocaust Memorial 2023.
Ways of remembering and acts of forgetting. Matthew Sweet hears histories and stories of the Holocaust; intimate family testimonies of loss, remembering in writing, a pilgrimage to a shrine for the forgotten and the traces of murdered children. Richard Zimler talks about his latest book, The Incandescent Threads, Stuart Taberner reflects on the ways modern writers connect to the Holocaust. Victoria Biggs on a pilgrimage site close to a place of mass murder and Daniel Lee on the drawings left behind by the children of the Maison d'Izieu.
16antimuzak
Tuesday 31st January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The English Civil War.
Rana Mitter talks to three historians, Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay and Clare Jackson, about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The English Civil War.
Rana Mitter talks to three historians, Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay and Clare Jackson, about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.
17antimuzak
Wednesday 8th February 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Lady Macbeth.
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler and New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday explore different takes on the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Akira Kurosawa and Shostakovich to a novel called Lady Macbethad and a play called Macbeth an Undoing. Hosted by Chris Harding.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Lady Macbeth.
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler and New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday explore different takes on the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Akira Kurosawa and Shostakovich to a novel called Lady Macbethad and a play called Macbeth an Undoing. Hosted by Chris Harding.
18antimuzak
Thursday 23rd February 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Climate Change and Empire Building.
Gambling, palace intrigue and scandal are part of the tale told in historian Nandini Das's new book about the four years Thomas Roe spent as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire. Peter Frankopan has written about The Silk Roads and the First Crusades and has now turned his eye to the long history of the natural world and climatic change. They join Rana Mitter to share insights from the history books they are publishing.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Climate Change and Empire Building.
Gambling, palace intrigue and scandal are part of the tale told in historian Nandini Das's new book about the four years Thomas Roe spent as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire. Peter Frankopan has written about The Silk Roads and the First Crusades and has now turned his eye to the long history of the natural world and climatic change. They join Rana Mitter to share insights from the history books they are publishing.
19antimuzak
Tuesday 7th March 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Anarchism and David Graeber.
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of American anthropologist David Graeber.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Anarchism and David Graeber.
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the ideas of American anthropologist David Graeber.
20antimuzak
Tuesday 18th April 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Galatea and Shakespeare.
Shadhidha Bari is joined by theatre director Emma Frankland and the academics Emma Whipday, Andy Kesson and Will Tosh to talk about links with Shakespeare and John Lyly's Galatea.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Galatea and Shakespeare.
Shadhidha Bari is joined by theatre director Emma Frankland and the academics Emma Whipday, Andy Kesson and Will Tosh to talk about links with Shakespeare and John Lyly's Galatea.
21antimuzak
Wednesday 19th April 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing.
Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generation Thinker and poet Peter Mackay, fashion historian Jonathan Faiers and theatre director Isobel McArthur to discuss a new stage play version of Kidnapped by RL Stevenson, the Tartan at V&A Dundee exhibition and the Highland Book Prize.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing.
Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generation Thinker and poet Peter Mackay, fashion historian Jonathan Faiers and theatre director Isobel McArthur to discuss a new stage play version of Kidnapped by RL Stevenson, the Tartan at V&A Dundee exhibition and the Highland Book Prize.
22antimuzak
Thursday 27th April 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Lady Antonia Fraser.
From Mary, Queen of Scots, who her mother was going to write about until she intervened - to her most recent biography of Caroline Lamb, out in mid-May, Antonia Fraser has had a career publishing prize winning books exploring historical figures. In this conversation, recorded at her London home with historian Rana Mitter, she reflects on what she calls "optical research", the crime fiction she has written, and meeting figures from history.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Lady Antonia Fraser.
From Mary, Queen of Scots, who her mother was going to write about until she intervened - to her most recent biography of Caroline Lamb, out in mid-May, Antonia Fraser has had a career publishing prize winning books exploring historical figures. In this conversation, recorded at her London home with historian Rana Mitter, she reflects on what she calls "optical research", the crime fiction she has written, and meeting figures from history.
23antimuzak
Tuesday 23rd May 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Linda Grant and Jewish History.
A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel The Story of the Forest. She joins John Gallagher and others for a conversation about writing and Jewish identity in the north west in a programme also looking at the re-opening of the Manchester Jewish Museum.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Linda Grant and Jewish History.
A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel The Story of the Forest. She joins John Gallagher and others for a conversation about writing and Jewish identity in the north west in a programme also looking at the re-opening of the Manchester Jewish Museum.
24antimuzak
Thursday 8th June 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Adam Smith.
Claimed variously as the father of capitalism, the defender of self-interest and advocate of free market economics, Adam Smith's reputation has undergone a recent reappraisal. Anne McElvoy hears about the unexpected side of Smith from guests including and Dafydd Mills Daniel and Roos Slegers.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Adam Smith.
Claimed variously as the father of capitalism, the defender of self-interest and advocate of free market economics, Adam Smith's reputation has undergone a recent reappraisal. Anne McElvoy hears about the unexpected side of Smith from guests including and Dafydd Mills Daniel and Roos Slegers.
25antimuzak
Tuesday 20th June 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Sorrows of Young Werther.
With the Royal Opera House staging Massenet's operatic adaptation of the story, Anne McElvoy explores the ideas that fed into The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. With Professor Sarah Hibberd, Dr Sean Williams and Dr Andrew Cooper.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Sorrows of Young Werther.
With the Royal Opera House staging Massenet's operatic adaptation of the story, Anne McElvoy explores the ideas that fed into The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. With Professor Sarah Hibberd, Dr Sean Williams and Dr Andrew Cooper.
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