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 - 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...
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Free Thinking - Hay Festival
Thu 28 May 2015
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council run a scheme to find the best...
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Free Thinking - Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi and Tom Holland
Wed 27 May 2015
Rana Mitter and guests New York Times journalist David Brooks, the Iranian novelist of...
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Free Thinking - Theodore Zeldin, Mona Mona Eltahawy
Tue 26 May 2015
Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy argues the Middle East Needs a Sexual...
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Free Thinking - Steve Hilton; Beowulf; The Beaux' Stratagem
Thu 21 May 2015
Are work and progress making us inhuman? Anne McElvoy is joined by Steve Hilton, a to...
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Free Thinking - Jospeh Stiglitz and Alain Mabanckou
Wed 20 May 2015
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz discusses income inequality. Novelist Alain Mabanckou...
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Free Thinking - Colm Toibin; Mammoth Cloning; Fareed Zakaria
Tue 19 May 2015
Matthew Sweet is joined by Colm Toibin to discuss the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; Beth...
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Free Thinking - High Society; Xinran; UK elections
Thu 14 May 2015
A week on from the election, Anne McElvoy turns to three historians - Tim Bale, Krista...
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Free Thinking - Dante's Divine Comedy
Wed 13 May 2015
To mark Dante's birth 750 years ago, Philip Dodd chairs a Landmark discussion about of...
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Free Thinking - Gut Instinct
Tue 12 May 2015
Matthew Sweet is joined by former Labour strategist Alastair Campbell, epidemiologist...
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Free Thinking - Anne Enright, Christopher Hampton 07May15
Thu 7 May 2015
Anne Enright, Ireland's first Laureate for Fiction, talks to Anne McElvoy about her...
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Free Thinking - Antony Sher
Wed 6 May 2015
Philip Dodd in extended conversation with the actor Antony Sher whose recent roles and...
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Free Thinking - Sir Thomas Browne
Tue 5 May 2015
Matthew Sweet talks to Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Claire Preston and Gavin Francis about...
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Free Thinking - Julian Barnes
Thu 30 Apr 2015
Anne McElvoy is joined by the Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes to discuss the...
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Free Thinking - Everyman
Wed 29 Apr 2015
Philip Dodd reports on the first night of Carol Ann Duffy's new adaptation of Everyman...
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Free Thinking - Alberto Manguel
Tue 28 Apr 2015
Matthew Sweet interviews Alberto Manguel about his new book, Curiosity.
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Free Thinking - English Civil War
Thu 23 Apr 2015
As Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is revived at The National's how...
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Free Thinking - Global Shakespeare
Wed 22 Apr 2015
Philip Dodd explores what a world view of Shakespeare means. Guests include Globe from...
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Free Thinking - Caryl Phillips
Tue 21 Apr 2015
Caryl Phillips talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel The Lost Child which...
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Free Thinking Landmark - The Tin Drum
Thu 16 Apr 2015
Anne McElvoy is joined by the German novelist Eugen Ruge, British author Lawrence the...
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Free Thinking - Violence in Culture
Wed 15 Apr 2015
Philip Dodd considers violence in culture with crime writer Frances Fyfield, historian...
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Free Thinking - Mexico in Words
Tue 14 Apr 2015
As Mexico takes centre stage at London's Book Fair Matthew Sweet speaks to two of the...
