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 - Animals
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other. Rana Mitter talks to the of at...
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Free Thinking Essay - Women's Theatre
Wed 12 Nov 2014
Naomi Paxton from the University of Manchester explores the international movement for...
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Free Thinking - Language of Money
Wed 12 Nov 2014
John Lanchester talks to Matthew Sweet about his novel Capital, our understanding of...
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Free Thinking Essay - Speech Before Words
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Where did language come from? It's often been described as the fundamental barrier and...
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Free Thinking Festival - Elif Shafak
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Turkey's best selling female writer, Elif Shafak, talks to Anne McElvoy about and as...
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Free Thinking Festival - From Flat Caps
Mon 10 Nov 2014
Anne McElvoy explores whether it is worth getting hot under the collar about blue with...
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Free Thinking Essay - Beastly Politics
Mon 10 Nov 2014
Is man the only political beast? Can other animals be regarded as members of our with...
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Free Thinking Essay: Beards and Whiskers
Fri 7 Nov 2014
Historian Alun Withey says beards can shed light on a whole range of things from to...
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Free Thinking Festival: Burning the Facts
Thu 6 Nov 2014
Which historical 'facts' should be burned on the fire? How do you comb ancient and for...
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Free Thinking Essay - Disraeli the Romantic
Thu 6 Nov 2014
Daisy Hay from Exeter University explores the way in which Disraeli invented the as a...
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Free Thinking Festival 2014: Right Thinking People
Wed 5 Nov 2014
David Willetts MP and the writer and philosopher Roger Scruton discuss the best way to...
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Free Thinking Festival: The Essay
Wed 5 Nov 2014
Sophie Coulombeau on the origins of the custom for women to take their husband's name.
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Free Thinking Essay: Scold The Front Page
Tue 4 Nov 2014
New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share...
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Free Thinking Festival 2014: You Must See This
Tue 4 Nov 2014
Matthew Sweet explores the way digital media have transformed our cultural tastes with...
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Free Thinking Festival 2014: Knowing Your Enemy
Mon 3 Nov 2014
Anne McElvoy chairs a discussion about conciliation in an age of uprisings recorded in...
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Free Thinking Essay: The Human Copying Machine
Mon 3 Nov 2014
New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt-Smith explores mirroring and a nineteenth-century...
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Free Thinking Festival - Karen Armstrong
Fri 31 Oct 2014
Karen Armstrong, one of the world's leading thinkers about religion, gives the Free in...
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Free Thinking - Akram Khan
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Choreographer Akram Khan talks to Anne McElvoy about curating a festival at the Lowry,...
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Free Thinking - Orhan Pamuk
Wed 29 Oct 2014
Orhan Pamuk talks, in an extended conversation with Philip Dodd, about his writing and...
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Free Thinking - Orhan Pamuk
Wed 29 Oct 2014
Orhan Pamuk talks to Philip Dodd about his writing career and his views of modern Turkey.
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Free Thinking - Mike Leigh
Tue 28 Oct 2014
Mike Leigh discusses his film about Turner. Steve Connor and Matthew Sweet discuss an...
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Free Thinking - Margaret Atwood
Thu 23 Oct 2014
Anne McElvoy talks to celebrated Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood whose most recent a...
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Free Thinking - Australian writer Peter Carey
Wed 22 Oct 2014
How history can help to shape policy making? Rana Mitter is joined by The History MP...
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Free Thinking - Marcel Proust
Tue 21 Oct 2014
This Free Thinking is devoted to one of the landmarks of European literature -- Marcel...
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Free Thinking - William Morris
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Jeremy Deller and Fiona McCarthy have each curated an exhibition looking at the art of...
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Free Thinking - The notion of Jewish identity
Wed 15 Oct 2014
Rana Mitter talks to three people who have been exploring their own relationship with...
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Free Thinking - Man Booker Prize
Tue 14 Oct 2014
Sherlock Holmes is investigated by Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as the Museum of an...
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Free Thinking - Henry IV
Thu 9 Oct 2014
Anne McElvoy talks to Phyllida Lloyd about playing Shakespeare in a female prison in...
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Free Thinking - Tim Minchin, David Cronenberg
Wed 8 Oct 2014
Canadian filmmaker and originator of the body horror genre, David Cronenberg covers as...
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Free Thinking Festival - Colm Toibin
Tue 7 Oct 2014
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers, whose books explore issues such as and...
