R3Arts: The Civil War, Arthur Miller & Trevor Philips
Arts and Ideas
The Arts and Ideas podcast brings you a selection of the best from BBC Radio 3's daily programme Night Waves. You'll find in-depth interviews with leading writers, directors, film-makers, and architects; vociferous debates on the key cultural and philosophical questions of our time; and the critics' judgement on the latest releases. Night Waves is on air Monday to Thursday at 9.15 - 10pm.
This week listen to the discussion Philip Dodd chaired at Radio 3’s Festival of Ideas in Liverpool with Trevor Philips, Head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission who talks about the six challenges he sees facing democracy today. Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Bigsby about the first volume of his new biography on Arthur Miller whose writing on the Great Depression has come back to haunt us.
And Bidisha talks to the historians Tristram Hunt and Justin Champion about the legacy of t... 
