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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Olivia Laing, Fun 蜜芽传媒

    Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA.

  2. The body, past and present

    Beauty from the Renaissance to the present.

  3. The Working Lunch and Food in History

    How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.

  4. Oliver Rackham and Wildwood Ideas

    The man who loved our trees and woods and his ideas about what they might become.

  5. Windrush, Forests in Art, South African Jazz

    Colin Grant, Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush with Shahidha Bari

  6. The Word For World Is Forest

    Matthew Sweet reads Ursula Le Guin's novel and discusses the Paul Foot Award.

  7. The Piano and Love

    Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.

  8. Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'

    Philip Dodd on the intellectual dark web with Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray and Ed Husain.

  9. Mark Lilla, Owen Hatherley, Gulzaar Barn

    Why Mark Lilla thinks the American Left needs a rethink and Gulzaar Barn on medical trials

  10. The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president

    Matthew Sweet talks to Jimmy Carter's former 'drug czar', Peter Bourne.

  11. Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley

    Shahidha Bari talks to three philosophers about how their work applies outside university.

  12. The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning

    Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja on translation. With Anne McElvoy.

  13. American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths

    Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, Gary Lachman, and the careers picked by psychopaths.

  14. Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

    Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.

  15. Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel V谩squez and Javier Cercas

    Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.

  16. Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall

    Landscape in motion plus how mountain climbing inspired a physicist and photographers.

  17. The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate

    Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians in conversation at the British Academy.

  18. Motherhood in fiction, memoir and on the analyst's couch

    Writers Sheila Heti, Jessie Greengrass and Jacqueline Rose compare notes on motherhood.

  19. Jordan B Peterson

    Self help and identity politics are on the agenda as Philip Dodd meets a YouTube star.

  20. Designing the future

    Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.

  21. John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism

    Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.

  22. What is Speech?

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.

  23. Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.

  24. Out of control?

    Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight, with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.

  25. Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars

    Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.

  26. Marxism

    Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.

  27. America: Inequality & Race

    Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.

  28. Tokyo Idols and Urban life

    Tomoyuki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.

  29. Landmark: Rashomon

    David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.

  30. Japan and Nature

    The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy.

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