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 - Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
Tue 31 May 2016
The 10 New Generation Thinkers 2016 join Rana Mitter to discuss their research.
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Free Thinking - Tale of Genji. Algorithms.
Thu 26 May 2016
Rana Mitter rereads The Tale of Genji sometimes called the world's first novel.
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Free Thinking - Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm.
Wed 25 May 2016
Philip Dodd looks at Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
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Free Thinking - Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Neil Libbert. Carry On Films.
Tue 24 May 2016
The Carry On film as social history and a photography show charting the 20th century.
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Free Thinking - Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds. The Bowes Museum. David Willetts on The State.
Thu 19 May 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to Dame Fiona Reynolds about preserving beauty in the countryside.
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Free Thinking - Landmark: In Parenthesis, by David Jones
Thu 19 May 2016
Writer Iain Sinclair librettist Emma Jenkins composer Paul Hills art historian Iain Bell
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Free Thinking - Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett
Tue 17 May 2016
Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton. Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat.
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Free Thinking - Germany: Neil MacGregor. A.T. Williams & Philippe Sands. Threepenny Opera. Volker Kutscher.
Thu 12 May 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Hadyn Gwynne.
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Free Thinking - The Cultural Revolution
Wed 11 May 2016
Frank Dik枚tter, Xiaolu and Xinran join Rana Mitter to revisit the Cultural Revolution
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Free Thinking - Revolutionary thinking: Paul Mason, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dacher Keltner.
Wed 11 May 2016
Paul Mason and Bryan and Mary Talbot discuss Louise Michel with Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love
Thu 5 May 2016
Anne McElvoy with novelists A L Kennedy, Tahmima Anam and Alain de Botton talking Love
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Free Thinking - Olafur Eliasson. Andrey Kurkov. Mary Dejevsky and Zinovy Zinik on Soviet Culture.
Wed 4 May 2016
Philip Dodd talks to the artist Olafur Eliasson and novelist Andrey Kurkov.
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Free Thinking - Concrete: Marina Lewycka, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Lynsey Hanley
Tue 3 May 2016
Matthew Sweet explores concrete homes with Marina Lewycka and looks at art at the YSP
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Free Thinking - TE Lawrence on stage. Jeremy Thorpe. Privacy.
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble discuss dramas depicting TE Lawrence.
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Free Thinking - The Winter's Tale Landmark
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Samuel West, Carol Rutter, Michael Dobson and Matthew Sweet discuss The Winter's Tale.
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Free Thinking - Sounds of Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Bookshelf
Tue 26 Apr 2016
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare
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Free Thinking - Sicily. John Hardyng's Chronicle. The London Library
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Anne McElvoy on Sicily plus the London Library at 175 with Tom Stoppard.
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Free Thinking - Slavoj Zizek.
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Philip Dodd debates migration, global solidarity with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek
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Free Thinking - Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker.
Tue 19 Apr 2016
Konstantin von Eggert, Sophie Fiennes and Geoff Dyer discuss Tarkovsky's 1979 film.
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Free Thinking - Syrian buildings. Judging Book Prizes. Georgian Literature
Thu 14 Apr 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to architect Marwa Al-Sabouni about Syria's built environment.
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British Conceptual Art.
Wed 13 Apr 2016
Philip Dodd talks to artist Bruce McLean about British Conceptual Art on show at Tate.
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Jonathan Coe and Richard Cameron on stage at Birmingham Rep
Tue 12 Apr 2016
Matthew Sweet talks to Jonathan Coe about the first stage production of The Rotter's Club
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Free Thinking - Economics: Liam Byrne, John Redwood, Luke Johnson, Juliet Michaelson and Matt Wolf
Thu 7 Apr 2016
Anne McElvoy considers new books from Thomas Piketty and Yanis Varoufakis.
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Free Thinking - Saki. Ria Sattouf. Anders Lustgarten. 鈥楢 Thing鈥�
Wed 6 Apr 2016
Rana Mitter talks to playwright Anders Lustgarten & rereads Saki's satirical stories.
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Evelyn Waugh.
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Bryony Lavery, Alexander Waugh, Philip Eade and Adam Mars-Jones celebrate Evelyn Waugh
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Free Thinking: Light: Ann Wroe, Dan Flavin, Blackpool Illuminations, The Sun.
Thu 31 Mar 2016
Ann Wroe joins Anne McElvoy for an exploration of light from Blackpool to the South Downs
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Nationalisms: Jerry Brotton, Elif Shafak, John Breuilly
Wed 30 Mar 2016
Jerry Brotton talks to Rana Mitter about Elizabethan England and the Islamic World.
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Suits. Neil LaBute
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Shahidha Bari explores the history of suits with Anne McElvoy. Plus dramatist Neil LaBute
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Free Thinking - The Green Man. George Monbiot.
Wed 23 Mar 2016
Rana Mitter considers the myth of the Green Man and our relationship with Nature.
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Free Thinking 鈥� Daniel Clowes; Alan Clarke's TV career; Ken Loach tribute to Barry Hines
Tue 22 Mar 2016
Phil Davis and Clio Barnard discuss the career of director Alan Clarke.
