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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Knees

    Dance to prayer, servants to Kings, knees ups to being on our knees. With Matthew Sweet

  2. Wordsworth

    Professors Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge talk to New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson

  3. Future Thinking

    Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen, Riel Miller, Sarah Dillon and Rupert Read with Matthew Sweet

  4. The Declaration Of Arbroath

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the early medieval document and Scottish politics today.

  5. How do we build a new masculinity?

    Sunil Gupta, CN Lester, Tom Shakespeare and Alona Pardo with Matthew Sweet.

  6. Contagion & Viruses

    Matthew Sweet talks to John Dupr茅, Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen & Matt Adams

  7. Shoes

    From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos, Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade.

  8. Does Growth Matter?

    Is the economic future all about growth? Danny Dorling discusses Slowdown.

  9. Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture

    Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet.

  10. Advertising, Renaissance Art and Artemisia Gentileschi

    Historians Catherine Fletcher, Selina Todd and art critic Jonathan Jones join Rana Mitter.

  11. Fighting Women

    Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright & Shawn Sobers join Eleanor Barraclough.

  12. Jewish Identity in 2020

    Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, Jonathan Freedland and Matthew Sweet.

  13. Maths and philosophy puzzles

    Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of 20th-century polymath Frank Ramsey (1903-1930).

  14. Anne Enright, The value of gossip

    The Irish novelist talks to Laurence Scott, plus a discussion of gossip past and present.

  15. How architecture shapes society

    Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Edwin Heathcote at LSE

  16. Women Behaving Badly?

    Helen Lewis joins Shahidha Bari to talk feminist pioneers, dating, and power dynamics.

  17. Genes, racism, ageing and evidence

    Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and geneticist Adam Rutherford join Rana Mitter.

  18. African Empire stories

    Petina Gappah and Sarah LeFanu on Livingstone, Kipling and Mary Kingsley in Africa.

  19. Japan Now 2020

    Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, Yukiko Motoya and Motoyuki Shibata

  20. The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky

    Matthew Sweet talks to Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky and to critics.

  21. Queer Histories

    How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?

  22. How we talk about sex and women's bodies

    Fern Riddell, Kate Lister and Robin Mitchell discuss their research with Matthew Sweet.

  23. The shadow of slavery

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to a panel about slavery, sugar and the costs.

  24. Early Cinema

    Matthew Sweet looks back at an early female film director and a British film pioneer.

  25. Samuel Beckett & the purpose of culture

    If we want the arts to be a comfort blanket, where does Beckett fit in? Lisa Dwan responds

  26. Mocking power past and present

    The German joker Tyll Ulenspiegel. Anne McElvoy, Daniel Kehlmann and Karen Leeder discuss.

  27. Fungi: An Alien Encounter

    Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food, and psychology.

  28. How we see pregnancy past and present

    Anne McElvoy hears the story of a woman who gave birth to rabbits and the news from Davos.

  29. Remembering Auschwitz

    Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation and talks to author Anne Michaels

  30. What is good listening?

    Matthew Sweet with New York Times journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf and David Toop.

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