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Free Thinking Episodes

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    Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant

    Claire Harman, Kirsty Gunn, Laurence Scott and Shahidha Bari discuss short story writing.

  2. Landladies

    Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

  3. Beasts and animals

    Shahidha Bari investigates the human invention of animals.

  4. Lists

    Are lists a good way of organising chaos? Lisa Mullen and guests discuss

  5. Depicting AIDS in Drama

    Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder, Sabina Dosani and Matthew Sweet, recorded with an audience.

  6. Trapeze acts and circus celebrities

    Shahidha Bari hears about aerialists Lillian Leitzel and Pablo Fanque.

  7. Language, the Victorians, and Us

    From Lancashire dialect protest poetry to Hardy's Dorset vowels. John Gallagher hosts.

  8. Star Trek

    Matthew Sweet with George Takei, Naomi Alderman, Una McCormack and Jos茅-Antonio Orosco.

  9. How do we look at art?

    Turner Prize shortlist, the vogue for surround-sound projections, and shows about sight.

  10. Soil, Chickens and City Farms

    Ahead of world soil day, Anne McElvoy looks at changes to both rural and urban farming.

  11. Morgan 鈥� A Suitable Case for Treatment

    Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz, Lucy Bolton and Matthew Sweet look at this 1966 film.

  12. Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales

    From the Arabian nights to refugee stories - female voices fictional and real.

  13. St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche

    Rana Mitter discusses three major philosophers of religion and self-development

  14. George Bernard Shaw

    Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950).

  15. Experimentation in the arts

    Shahidha Bari talks to the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for creative daring.

  16. Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022

    New research on Benjamin Franklin in Cumbria, the Kenwood, lightbulbs and ganzflicker.

  17. Plastic and Clay

    Lisa Mullen and guests compare the extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.

  18. The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022

    Video game designers, a former soldier, and curator of War Games at IWM join Anne McElvoy.

  19. John Knox

    A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

  20. Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

    Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena, joins Anne McElvoy.

  21. Alexander the Great

    Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander.

  22. Ghostwatch

    An examination of the reality鈥揾orror/pseudo-documentary TV broadcast from 1992.

  23. Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

    Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk joins academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria.

  24. Dead languages

    John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of ancient Pompeii

  25. Oliver Postgate

    Matthew Sweet with Daniel Postgate, Sandra Kerr, Neil Brand and Samira Ahmed.

  26. Going Underground

    Shahidha Bari and guests explore life and leisure underground.

  27. British Academy Book Prize 2022

    Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

  28. Romanticism revisited

    Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bront毛 under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.

  29. The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

    Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

  30. Miles Davis and On The Corner

    Matthew Sweet and guests explore Davis's genre-stretching album, released on 11 Oct 1972.

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