Night Waves - Antony Gormley
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2012
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet talks to Antony Gormley about his gigantic new sculpture Model. The leading Sondheim interpreter Maria Friedman reveals why she has decided to move from acting to directing for a new production of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. Matthew is joined by the psychologists Nicholas Humphrey and Thomas Hill to debate whether we are as smart as we used to be. And as the literary archive of the great Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky comes up for auction, Matthew looks at his potent legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
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| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
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| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.6 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.8 | Listen on BBC sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
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| 0:39.1 | BBC.co.uk slash radio three. Let's get the bad news out of the way first, shall we? The human race |
| 0:46.6 | reached its intellectual peak several thousand years ago, and we're getting stupid all the time. |
| 0:52.1 | That's the view of a leading American geneticist, |
| 0:54.6 | and we'll discuss it later, if we still can. |
| 0:57.1 | Hopefully, we'll also have enough mental battery life |
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