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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Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
Mon 8 Apr 2019
Sarah Goldsmith explores the C18th aristocratic craze for pumping iron
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Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
Fri 5 Apr 2019
Elsa Richardson on the diet guru who set up a Covent Garden caf茅 and sold health products.
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'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?
Fri 5 Apr 2019
Dr Fern Riddell, Kehinde Andrews, Will Davies & Jo Ann Nadler join Shahidha Bari
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Shopping Around the Baby Market
Thu 4 Apr 2019
Gulzaar Barn asks questions about commercial surrogacy and the way we view our bodies.
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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Wed 3 Apr 2019
Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment
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Being Diplomatic
Wed 3 Apr 2019
How much emotion should a diplomat, a news reporter or a conciliation expert show?
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Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
Wed 3 Apr 2019
A crime writer, novelist from Northern Ireland and former prison governor compare notes.
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The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Tue 2 Apr 2019
Daisy Black conjures up images of breaking bread and cannibalism in mystery plays
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Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
Tue 2 Apr 2019
Stephen Briers, Caroline Dower and Ceyda Uzun join Anne McElvoy at Sage Gateshead.
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A city is not a park but should it be?
Tue 2 Apr 2019
A short talk at the Free Thinking Festival from New Generation Thinker Des Fitzgerald.
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Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
Mon 1 Apr 2019
Historian of emotions Professor Thomas Dixon, Matthew Sweet & the Sage Gateshead audience
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Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
Wed 27 Mar 2019
Matthew Sweet meets the TV writers of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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Childhood faces and fears
Thu 21 Mar 2019
A history of orphans, fears about brainwashing and portraits on show at Compton Verney
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Empathy
Wed 20 Mar 2019
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey & AK Benjamin discuss empathy with Chris Harding.
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George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
Tue 19 Mar 2019
One poet and two writers in conversation about language, migrants and personhood
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Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
Thu 14 Mar 2019
Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri
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The Council Estate in Culture
Wed 13 Mar 2019
Why are estates so often portrayed as incubators of social deprivation and criminality?
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Women, relationships and the law past and present
Thu 7 Mar 2019
Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay
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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Wed 6 Mar 2019
Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn, Xiaolu Guo & Matthew Sweet on Doris Lessing.
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Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
Tue 5 Mar 2019
Gazelle Twin, Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner & William Fowler.
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David Bailey, Don McCullin
Tue 5 Mar 2019
Philip Dodd goes to David Bailey's studio and talks to Don McCullin about his Tate show.
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The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
Mon 4 Mar 2019
Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, and the history of sewing.
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Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Thu 28 Feb 2019
Laurence Scott & Will Self on redundant features in design + a visit to Collect Craft Show
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Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Tue 26 Feb 2019
Rescuing the Ripper's victims from the shadows of history
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Authority in the Era of Populism
Thu 21 Feb 2019
Louise Casey, Mary Kaldor, Jamie Bartlett, Heather Rabbatts & Rupert Reid w/ Anne McElvoy
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The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature
Wed 20 Feb 2019
Shahidha Bari talks poetry and the web series Brown Girls, plus the history of sewing.
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Patti LuPone
Tue 19 Feb 2019
The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian-American roots.
