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.
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Free Thinking Festival: The Never-Ending Workday
Wed 29 Mar 2017
Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile on time and working.
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The Essay - The Magic Years
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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Essay - The Magic Years
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Medical historian Matthew Smith on 1970s US psychiatry - a time of hope and promise.
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Free Thinking Festival: The Speed of Revolution
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Bettany Hughes, Richard J Evans and John Hall join Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage
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The Essay - Faith, Fire and the Family
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
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Free Thinking Festival: Doing Time/Confinement
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Terry Waite, Erwin James and Cleo Van Velsen on the experience of isolation.
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Free Thinking Essay: Russia's Sacred Ruins
Fri 24 Mar 2017
Victoria Donovan on the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.
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The Essay - The British Writer and the Refugee
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WW2.
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Free Thinking Festival: Quick Reactions
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Damon Hill,Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lincoln Jopp on pressured decision-making at top speed
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The Essay - In the Shadows of Biafra
Wed 22 Mar 2017
Louisa Egbunike explores images of refugees and Igbo rituals which continue to resonate.
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Free Thinking Festival: How Short is a Short Story?
Wed 22 Mar 2017
George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Ashworth and Paul McVeigh on writing short fiction.
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Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City
Tue 21 Mar 2017
New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson with a story linking Egypt and Afghanistan.
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Free Thinking Festival: Harriet Harman - Politics Fast and Slow
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Labour MP Harriet Harman on sustaining her career in a fast-changing political world.
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Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Seb Falk on the 14th century monks who studied astronomy, a world of science & religion.
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Free Thinking Festival: Faster, Faster, Faster?
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher debate the speed of life.
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Free Thinking: Sleep - Freedom to Think
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Russell Foster, leading neuroscientist, with the Free Thinking lecture, The Speed of Life
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Free Thinking - Rodney Graham at BALTIC, The Amber Collective.
Fri 17 Mar 2017
New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari visits exhibitions opening in Gateshead and Newcastle
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Free Thinking: Images of America
Wed 15 Mar 2017
As London hosts 2 exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream.
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Free Thinking - Michael Lewis.
Thu 9 Mar 2017
The New York Times bestselling author is in conversation with Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking: Neglected Women: Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte Robinson.
Wed 8 Mar 2017
Author Tracy Chevalier and new academic research into women forgotten from history.
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Free Thinking: Landmark: Machiavelli's The Prince
Tue 7 Mar 2017
Sarah Dunant, Erica Benner, MP Gisela Stuart and Catherine Fletcher with Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking - Neil Jordan, Flat Time House, Teletubbies
Thu 2 Mar 2017
Author Neil Jordan in a hall of mirrors and artist Laure Prouvost on Flat Time House
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Free Thinking: India/Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid. Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman
Wed 1 Mar 2017
Anne McElvoy and guests look back at 1947, the end of empire and refugees travelling now.
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Free Thinking - Japan Now Festival at the British Library.
Tue 28 Feb 2017
Christopher Harding talks to writers Alex Kerr, Yoko Tawada and filmmaker Momoko Ando.
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Free Thinking - Othello, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Thu 11 Jun 2015
Poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger reflects on his writing, and German history
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Free Thinking - Saul Bellow
Wed 10 Jun 2015
Martin Amis, Zachary Leader and Sarah Churchwell join Matthew Sweet
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Free Thinking - Carsten H枚ller, freaks and fairground
Tue 9 Jun 2015
Matthew Sweet has a go on Carsten H枚ller's slide at the Hayward Gallery
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Susan Abulhawa - Gregory Tate - Eugenia Cheng
Thu 4 Jun 2015
Anne McElvoy discusses maths and music with Mathematician Eugenia Cheng.
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Free Thinking - Kate Grenville
Wed 3 Jun 2015
Rana Mitter talks to Kate Grenville, one of Australia's leading novelists, about the...
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Free Thinking - Male Friendship
Tue 2 Jun 2015
'One Man, Two Guvnors' playwright Richard Bean and novelists Steve Tolz and AD Miller...
