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 - Dadaism's 100th anniversary
Tue 9 Feb 2016
Matthew Sweet looks at the founding of the Dada movement 100 years ago.
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Free Thinking -Joseph Crawhall; Madame Bovary by Peepolykus; Rona Munro's The James plays; and Matthew Parris on biography.
Thu 4 Feb 2016
Anne McElvoy profiles the painter Joseph Crawhall one of the lost masters of British art
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Free Thinking 鈥� John Irving
Wed 3 Feb 2016
Philip Dodd interviews John Irving whose latest novel is called Avenue of Mysteries.
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Free Thinking - Dad's Army; States of Mind at the Wellcome Institute; Utopia in sci-fi
Tue 2 Feb 2016
Marking Dad's Army on film, Matthew Sweet looks at the fifth column.
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Radio 3 broadcasts Lorraine Hansberry鈥檚 'A Raisin in the Sun' this Sunday 31 Jan 2016 as the Sunday Drama.
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Hear Lorraine's life and writing career discussed on Free Thinking.
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Free Thinking - Anna Pavord: Gardens in Art. University funding.
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Anne McElvoy views Painting the Modern Garden at the RA and talks to Anna Pavord.
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Free Thinking - Stefan Zweig, Howard Jacobson, Michael Sandle
Wed 27 Jan 2016
Philip Dodd meets sculptor Michael Sandle, Howard Jacobson and discusses Stefan Zweig
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Free Thinking - Con Men; John Dee; F For Fake
Tue 26 Jan 2016
Matthew Sweet explores the art of the con.
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Free Thinking - The Arab Spring, Sahar Assaf, Owen Hatherley, Social Media and Language
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Anne McElvoy looks at what happened to the Arab Spring five years on plus Owen Hatherley.
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Free Thinking - Holes in the Ground
Wed 20 Jan 2016
Rana Mitter explores Holes in the Ground and their emotional and practical uses.
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Free Thinking Landmark: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tue 19 Jan 2016
Merlin Holland, Will Self and Fiona Shaw join Matthew Sweet to discuss Wilde's novel
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Free Thinking - The Oscars
Thu 14 Jan 2016
Matthew Sweet looks at the revival of Westerns and reports on the 2016 Oscar contenders
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Free Thinking - French thought and politics.
Thu 14 Jan 2016
Is France ceasing to be French - Philip Dodd and his guests investigate
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Free Thinking - TS Eliot poetry prize winner. Lisa Randall on dark matter.
Tue 12 Jan 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to the winner of this year's TS Eliot poetry prize Sarah Howe.
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Free Thinking - Velasquez; John Bratby; Pan Haggerty
Fri 8 Jan 2016
Anne McElvoy talks to Laura Cumming about a C19 court case involving a Vel谩zquez portrait
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Free Thinking 鈥� Landmark: Lorraine Hansberry
Thu 7 Jan 2016
With two plays by Lorraine Hansberry being staged Philip Dodd examines her achievement
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Free Thinking -Teenage life: David and Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
Tue 5 Jan 2016
Matthew Sweet, David & Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
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Free Thinking - Star Wars. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey. Beowulf.
Thu 17 Dec 2015
Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hampton & Adjoa Andoh about Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Free Thinking - Cities and Safety
Wed 16 Dec 2015
Philip Dodd rereads Conrad's The Secret Agent and considers what a safe city means now.
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Free Thinking - Northern Lights Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Tue 15 Dec 2015
Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking - Must The Arts Be Relevant?
Thu 10 Dec 2015
Mark Baldwin, Catherine Wood, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Kent and Vayu Naidu debate the arts.
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Free Thinking - Northern Lights: crime fiction and cold settings
Wed 9 Dec 2015
Margaret Atwood, Arnaldur Indriadason and MJ McGrath talk about crime fiction and cold.
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Free Thinking Festival: Northern Lights: Joanne Harris on the Norse god Loki
Tue 8 Dec 2015
Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discuss the god Loki and Norse beliefs.
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Free Thinking - Mein Kampf; Larissa MacFarquhar; Julia Margaret Cameron
Mon 7 Dec 2015
Anna Fox and Chantal Joffe discuss Julia Margaret Cameron plus altruism's wilder shores.
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Free Thinking - Kenzaburo Oe, Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, Japan and Cool Now
Wed 2 Dec 2015
Philip Dodd reviews the newly translated novel from Nobel prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
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Free Thinking - Umberto Eco
Tue 1 Dec 2015
Italian author Umberto Eco talks to Matthew Sweet about conspiracy theories and war.
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Rule Making and Rule Breaking for Women and Men.
Thu 26 Nov 2015
Sheila Hancock, Neil Bartlett, Bim Adewunmi and head teacher Jonny Mitchell debate rules.
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Free Thinking Festival - Breathalysing Britain: Free Spirits or a Drain on Society?
Wed 25 Nov 2015
David Yelland, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Dr Sally Marlow and Prof Barry Smith on alcohol
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Free Thinking Festival - Work Available: No Humans Need Apply
Wed 25 Nov 2015
Paul Mason, Lucy Armstrong and Richard and Daniel Susskind debate the future of work
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Free Thinking Festival - Stage Directions
Wed 25 Nov 2015
A discussion of the actor/director relationship and are there rules for good theatre?
