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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Marlene Dietrich

    Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich, from Europe to Hollywood.

  2. Winter Light

    From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars and Susan Greaney on Stonehenge.

  3. Hegel's Philosophy of Right

    Anne McElvoy listens out for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel

  4. Ancient Wisdom and Remote Living

    From medieval science to the ingenuity of Arctic peoples and the resilience of island life

  5. Hey Presto

    From a history of Panto to magic tricks and what surgeons can learn from them.

  6. The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age

    Matthew Sweet on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Carnap and other philosophical greats.

  7. Ways of Talking about Health

    Des Fitzgerald with projects that use films and books to rethink how we approach health.

  8. Times of Change

    Can the Industrial Revolution and the end of the Aztecs help us shape a post-Covid world?

  9. Mould-Breaking Writing

    Will Harris, Max Porter and Chloe Aridjis, Christine Yao and Shahidha Bari.

  10. Leadership

    From Tudor courts to plantations to the Arab Spring: a Bristol Festival of Ideas debate.

  11. Conformity and Rebellion

    Activist Obi Egbuna, Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, Japanese child star Misora Hibari

  12. Bedrooms

    From the most private space to office: Matthew Sweet, Tiffany Watt Smith and Fern Riddell.

  13. Democracy, Hong Kong and USA

    Democracy and dissent in Hong Kong and the USA. Are confrontational politics here to stay?

  14. Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

    How do you teach writing? Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes.

  15. About Face

    What would you change about your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

  16. Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse

    New research on Herman Moll's maps, looted Mexican coins and Alan Bates's early career.

  17. The Imperial War Museum 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020

    What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?

  18. What we cherish and what we give away

    What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?

  19. Billy Wilder

    Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.

  20. Depicting Disability

    The history of disabled people鈥檚 political activism, to portrayals in fiction & at courts.

  21. War in fact and fiction

    Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto

  22. Audiences

    A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd

  23. Individualism and Community

    From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts

  24. City Life, estate living and lockdown

    Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.

  25. The Writing of Aim茅 C茅saire

    From n茅gritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.

  26. 2020 Polari Prize winners

    Shahidha Bari looks at some of the best recent LGBTQ+ writing and photography.

  27. Seances and Science

    A Croydon poltergeist and artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale and Simon Grant.

  28. Derrida and post truth

    Matthew Sweet asks biographer Peter Salmon about Derrida's influence today

  29. Daljit Nagra & Val McDermid; Reynard the Fox

    A poet and a crime writer compare notes; plus, lessons for now from a medieval foxy fable

  30. New Thinking about Museums

    VR Vikings, military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections.

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