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 - Charm
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Author and design consultant Stephen Bayley has written an e-book called Charm: A...
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Free Thinking - Childhood
Wed 19 Mar 2014
Frank Field MP, child psychiarist Dickon Bevington and authors Meg Rosoff and Philip a...
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Free Thinking - Leadership and Military Intervention
Tue 18 Mar 2014
Historian Archie Brown and military expert Frank Ledwidge join Samira Ahmed to discuss...
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Free Thinking - Jonathan Lethem & Gary Shteyngart
Thu 13 Mar 2014
American authors Jonathan Lethem and Gary Shteyngart discuss radicalism, belonging and...
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Free Thinking - The Brits Who Built the Modern World
Wed 12 Mar 2014
Philip Dodd chairs a discussion between Terry Farrell, Norman Foster, Nicholas Michael...
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Free Thinking - David Grossman
Tue 11 Mar 2014
David Grossman's new book Falling Out of Time mixes poetry, drama and fiction to grief...
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Free Thinking - Flora Thompson & Ruins
Thu 6 Mar 2014
Richard Mabey discusses his biography of Flora Thompson, author of Lark Rise to and on...
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Free Thinking - Julian Schnabel
Wed 5 Mar 2014
Philip Dodd in conversation with artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel, best known for...
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Free Thinking - Vikings
Tue 4 Mar 2014
Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition with the curator Gareth 3...
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Free Thinking - Spitting Image
Thu 27 Feb 2014
Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld talk about the impact of education and religion on success...
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Free Thinking - Wim Wenders on Peace
Thu 27 Feb 2014
Film director Wim Wenders and Australian philosopher Mary Zournazi explain why they we...
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Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award
Tue 25 Feb 2014
As Dirty Rotten Scoundrels becomes a musical, Samira Ahmed considers the scoundrel of...
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Free Thinking - France & Algeria
Thu 20 Feb 2014
Anne McElvoy looks at the relationship between France and its former colonies, talking...
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Free Thinking - Charlie Chaplin
Wed 19 Feb 2014
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is ranked by The American Film Institute as one of the...
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Free Thinking - Class in Britain
Tue 18 Feb 2014
Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was 18. First performed in 1958, a new...
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Free Thinking - Stuart Hall
Mon 17 Feb 2014
To mark the death of cultural historian Stuart Hall, another chance to hear his with...
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Free Thinking - Literary Heroines
Thu 13 Feb 2014
Ofsted chair Sally Morgan and Tim Montgomerie debate Ed Miliband's speech about parent...
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Free Thinking - Atheism and Belief
Wed 12 Feb 2014
Two books published this month include the idea of "the death of God" in their titles:...
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Free Thinking - Spike Jonze's Her
Tue 11 Feb 2014
Spike Jonze's new film Her depicts a writer developing a relationship with his system...
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Free Thinking - Hanif Kureishi
Thu 6 Feb 2014
Hanif Kureishi's career has included screenplays My Beautiful Launderette, Venus, Me...
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Free Thinking - First World War, Empathy
Wed 5 Feb 2014
Matthew Sweet revisits Alan Bleasdale's 1986 World War One TV series The Monocled by...
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Free Thinking - Christine Lagarde
Tue 4 Feb 2014
As International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde gives this year芒鈧劉s Anne...
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Free Thinking - Ukraine and Russia
Thu 30 Jan 2014
Anne McElvoy on unrest in Ukraine and the state of dissent in Russia today with Boris...
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Free Thinking - Australia
Tue 28 Jan 2014
Christos Tsiolkas, Germaine Greer and the Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson talk about the...
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Free Thinking - Feminism in Theatre
Tue 28 Jan 2014
American novelist Jonathan Lethem discusses the singer Pete Seeger, whose death has...
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Free Thinking - Derek Jarman
Thu 23 Jan 2014
The actor Simon Russell Beale discusses playing the role of King Lear.
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Free Thinking: Japanese History, Chinese Democarcy
Wed 22 Jan 2014
Zhang Weiwei, one of China's foremost public intellectuals, talks to Rana Mitter about...
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Free Thinking - Suicide discussion
Tue 21 Jan 2014
Matthew Sweet discusses the way we talk about suicide with Jennifer Michael Hecht, of...
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Free Thinking - Steve McQueen
Thu 16 Jan 2014
Matthew Sweet talks to director Steve McQueen about his new film '12 Years A Slave' of...
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Free Thinking - Girls & Constitution
Wed 15 Jan 2014
Samira Ahmed looks at the appeal of Lena Dunham's US TV series Girls with comedian and...
