Arts & Ideas Podcast
Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives 鈥� looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
Episodes to download
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Is the Shadow of Mao still hanging over China?
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Rana Mitter talks to historians of China Jung Chang and Julia Lovell, & reporter Cindy Yu
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Are the arts saving Margate?
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Investigating regeneration and gentrification in the new arts hub.
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Why We Need New News
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Research on reporting hangings, assassinations & propaganda from the Being Human Festival
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The Legacy of the Trojan War
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city still cast such a long shadow?
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New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
Sat 16 Nov 2019
Hetta Howes talks to winners of this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards
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The Changing Image of Masculinity.
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola & Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life
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Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Cabaret and club culture, recorded at the Barbican.
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The 2019 Free Thinking Imperial War Museum Remembrance Debate
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Who decides what鈥檚 worth saving and what is culturally significant to protect in wartime?
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Quatermass
Tue 5 Nov 2019
Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
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New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dancefloors
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Halloween. Ghost Stories
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Haunting stories with Kirsty Logan, Jeremy Dyson & host Shahidha Bari
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Cars, Parking and Motorways
Wed 30 Oct 2019
A discussion reflecting on automobiles, AI and the 60th anniversary of the M1 motorway.
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Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Wed 30 Oct 2019
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham at the British Library with Matthew Sweet
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Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.
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What to Believe
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Rana Mitter and guests have a look at the history of faith, doubt, economics and art.
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New Thinking: First Encounters
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Why we need to rethink the stories we tell of Columbus, Pocahontas & the English in India
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Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
Tue 22 Oct 2019
Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.
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2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Wed 16 Oct 2019
Prehistory with Mike Pitts & Renee So, plus Alex Clark & Tinuke Craig
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East Meets West
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Orientalism now with Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar, Tom Holland, and artist Inci Eviner.
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Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Monsters and myths in the art of Gerald Scarfe and Kiki Smith + Caryl Churchill's plays.
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Modern Dutch Writing
Wed 9 Oct 2019
Laurence Scott looks at the way Dutch writers are addressing history & contemporary life
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The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art
Tue 8 Oct 2019
Michael Govan Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art talks art with Philip Dodd
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Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day.
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Who holds the power? The US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.
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New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Incl a Welsh castle w/ more Mughal Art than India's National Museum - a new UK poem map
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From The Spains to LatinX
Wed 2 Oct 2019
Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.
