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Free Thinking Episodes

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    The Weird, Science and Art at Fact, Japanese Film Your Name

    Rana Mitter on science and art on show at Liverpool's Fact and what we mean by 'weird'.

  2. Schiller's Mary Stuart, Gunter Grass, Preti Taneja on translated fiction, Rachel Reeves

    Anne McElvoy on Robert Icke's version of Mary Stuart and the last novel from Gunter Grass.

  3. Zadie Smith

    Author Zadie Smith talks about dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences.

  4. Beards, Listening, Masculinity

    Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum on fatherhood. With Matthew Sweet

  5. Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

    Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetary and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

  6. Being Human: Vernon Lee, Lying, Coma

    With a profile of writer Vernon Lee, what it means to lie and popular ideas of the 'coma'.

  7. Being Human Debate at Fact, Liverpool: Man and Animals

    From Fact in Liverpool, Rana Mitter and guests debate mermaids, robots, humans and animals

  8. Art Spiegelman, Marina Abramovic, American Pastoral

    Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston on their collaboration.

  9. Black British History

    Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on black Britain.

  10. Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All

    Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch. Plus Victorian amusements.

  11. Landmark: Waverley

    Rana Mitter presents a special programme exploring Walter Scott's novel Waverley.

  12. Stephen Poliakoff and Linda Grant. Yuval Noah Harari.

    Linda Grant and Stephen Poliakoff join Philip Dodd to discuss post-World War II Britain.

  13. Whose Book Is it Anyway?

    Anne McElvoy and her panel of guests explore the rise of reading in Britain.

  14. Enoch Powell, US Supreme Court, War and Art

    With a play about Enoch Powell, the US Supreme Court and the visual language of war.

  15. South African Art: William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Gavin Jantjes.

    William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes discuss South Africa and art.

  16. Richard Hakluyt, Man Booker Prize, Chickens in the Anthropocene, Shirley Jackson

    Includes Richard Hakluyt's legacy, chickens and the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

  17. Artes Mundi Prize, Harriet Walter, Amitav Ghosh, Edmund Richardson

    With a review of the 2016 Artes Mundi show, actress Harriet Walter and author Amitav Ghosh

  18. Paul Nash, George Szirtes, Hungary 1956 and now

    With a graphic novel based on Paul Nash's dreams, plus religion and revolution in Hungary.

  19. Kevin Brownlow

    Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent film classics

  20. Caravaggio, Bob Dylan, Dario Fo, Lenin's Train Journey

    Including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo's plays and Caravaggio's art.

  21. Sound Frontiers: Teju Cole

    Writer Teju Cole talks to Philip Dodd about Baldwin, Boko Haram and Black Lives Matter.

  22. Outsiders and Colin Wilson, The Vulgar, Norse Sagas

    Including Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation, fashion at the Barbican and Norse gods.

  23. Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

    Authors Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman are in conversation with Philip Dodd.

  24. Sound Frontiers: HG Wells

    As the 2016 London Literature Festival opens, Matthew Sweet chairs an HG Wells discussion.

  25. Sound Frontiers: Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla, Drugs in the German Reich, Board Games

    Rana Mitter discusses drugs and the Nazis, migration, and the metamorphosis of gaming.

  26. Sound Frontiers: Fiction in 1946

    Benjamin Markovits, Lara Feigel and Kevin Jackson discuss the best fiction of 1946.

  27. Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah

    Anne McElvoy debates success, the subject for a Third Programme debate in 1967.

  28. Sound Frontiers: People Power - John Bew, Alison Light, Kwasi Kwarteng, Helen Lewis

    Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.

  29. Medieval Manuscripts, Emma Donoghue, The Story of Boris Vian

    With a discussion about medieval illuminated manuscripts, plus author Emma Donoghue.

  30. American Power? Suzan-Lori Parks, Gary Younge, Abstract Expressionism

    With dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, plus gun culture and abstract expressionism at the RA.

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