Free Thinking Episodes Available now
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Ten researchers look at colonial history, alphabets, punctuation, poetry, art terminology.
What do we learn from census stats?
John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records.
Edward Said's thinking
Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator
The Vietnam-Paris Connection
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet.
From Life on Mars to Dangerous Space Junk
Seb Falk talks to researchers about attitudes to Mars, seeing colour and Skylab's crash.
Speech, Voice, Accents and AI
Sadie Ryan, Lynda Clark and Allison Koenecke talk about their research with Matthew Sweet.
Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Horatio Clare talks to Laurence Scott about mania and healing. Plus Stevie Smith.
Girls
Shahidha Bari looks at research into girls in film and fiction to Malawi health projects.
Foucault: The History of Sexuality 4
Shahidha Bari reads a new English translation by Robert Hurley.
Humans, Animals, Ecologies
Matthew Sweet talks to Joanna Bourke and Anna Tsing about the human and the non human.
