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Arts & Ideas Episodes

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    Galatea and Shakespeare

    Trans narratives in pre-Shakespearian drama plus Twelfth Night and the First Folio.

  2. Futurism

    Matthew Sweet and guests look at the manifesto celebrating youth, technology and violence

  3. Futurism

    Matthew Sweet explores into the movement that celebrated technology, vitality, violence

  4. Future Thinking

    Mark Honigsbaum, Lisa Mullen, Riel Miller, Sarah Dillon & Rupert Read with Matthew Sweet

  5. Fungi: An Alien Encounter

    Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.

  6. Fungi: An Alien Encounter

    Are fungi out to get us or here to help? A look at mushrooms in art, food and psychology.

  7. Fun 蜜芽传媒, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter

    Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA

  8. Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

    Oskar Jensen tells the tall tale of a court case inspired by a best-selling novel

  9. From The Spains to LatinX

    Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.

  10. From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage

    Reconstructing the thought-world of the middle ages

  11. From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living

    Matthew Sweet visits The Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.

  12. From Blackface to Beyonc茅

    From the theatre stage to the Superbowl, in praise of Black performance

  13. From algorithms to oceans

    Kerry McInerney explores the promise of the 鈥榮ustainable AI鈥� movement and how AI develops

  14. Frieze: Museums in the 21st century

    Anne McElvoy talks to the directors at London's National Gallery, Yale and New York's Met

  15. Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate

    Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.

  16. Friendship

    Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people

  17. French writing and politics

    Le茂la Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed

  18. Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World

    The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break

  19. Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration

    Shahidha Bari talks to Professor Bhabha about his influence on postcolonial studies.

  20. Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin

    Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

  21. Free Thinking: Yaa Gyasi. Daniel Levitin. Peter Bazalgette, James Bartholomew on Clarity, Civility and Strong States.

    Tooling a stronger civil society plus a novel on Slavery on both sides of the Atlantic.

  22. Free Thinking: Will Self, R. D. Laing and Mandy.

    Matthew Sweet talks to Will Self about the mind, consciousness and R. D. Laing.

  23. Free Thinking: Wells' Women

    As the London Literature Festival opens, HG Wells: women, politics and four dimensions.

  24. Free Thinking: Washing in public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

    Public pools, the "steamie" and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

  25. Free Thinking: Tom McCarthy. Jacobitism; Satirical Indexes; A Museum of Modern Nature

    Anne McElvoy looks at Bonnie Prince Charlie and Nature exhibitions & meets Tom McCarthy.

  26. Free Thinking: The Wolfson Prize

    Rana Mitter is joined by the 6 shortlisted authors and an audience at the British Academy

  27. Free Thinking: The War of the Worlds sequel, Eimear McBride

    Matthew Sweet talks to Stephen Baxter about his sequel to HG Wells's novel.

  28. Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.

    Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

  29. Free Thinking: The Desert: Geoff Dyer, Laurence Scott, Georgia O'Keeffe

    Georgia O'Keeffe images of New Mexico at Tate and Matthew Sweet looks at deserts

  30. Free Thinking: The Arts of Running

    Artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar join Hayden Lorimer and Vybarr Cregan-Reid.

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