Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking: Terrorism
Rana Mitter and guests look at fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.
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Free Thinking: Still Loving Victoriana Jokes and All
Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch and some Victorian jokes
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Free Thinking: Soviet Histories: Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Svetlana Alexeivich on Soviet oral history as literature and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin.
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Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: People Power
Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.
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Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: People Power
Philip Dodd and guests discuss Clement Attlee's legacy, people power and cultural tastes.
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Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman
The authors talk electric shocks, Shakespeare and the power of women with Philip Dodd.
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Free Thinking: Sound Frontiers - Teju Cole
From Baldwin to Black Lives Matter. Philip Dodd talks to Teju Cole
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Free Thinking: Social Conservatism, Kathe Kollwitz and John Ashbery
Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the K盲the Kollwitz show in Birmingham
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Free Thinking: Sleep - Freedom to Think
Russell Foster, leading neuroscientist, with the Free Thinking lecture, The Speed of Life
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Free Thinking: Shelina Janmohamed. Edward Ardizzone's Art. Jewish identity in fiction
Shelina Janmohamed explores "Generation M". Plus Edward Ardizzone's daughter on his art.
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Free Thinking: Salom茅, Angels in America, Queer British Art
Philip Dodd looks at desire & politics as Angels in America runs at the National Theatre
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Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.
Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum about Russian and Ukrainian history.
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Free Thinking: Russian Art and Revolution
Dolya Gavanski, Stephen Smith, Victor Sebestyen, Charlotte Hobson and Anne McElvoy.
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Free Thinking: Rachel Seiffert. James Hawes,Richard Nelson. 2017 New Gen Thinker Alistair Fraser on gangs
Anne McElvoy explores German Russian history, US electioneering and crime with her guests
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Free Thinking: Professor Paul Gilroy
Philip Dodd is in extended conversation about culture & race with Professor Paul Gilroy.
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Free Thinking: Political Sketch Writing. Enclosure Acts. 2017. Branwell Bronte. Pushkin House Book Prize 2017
Anne McElvoy and guests look at the style of the election and the job of sketch writers.
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Free Thinking: Poetry and Protest Newcastle
Poetry and protest -Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson at Newcastle University.
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Free Thinking: Patriotism: The Union Jack
Afua Hirsch, Graham Bartram, John Bew, Ash Sarkar & Andrew Rosindell join Anne McElvoy.
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Free Thinking: Paolozzi; Daniel Dennett
Philip Dodd looks at the art of Paolozzi and talks consciousness with Daniel Dennett.
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Free Thinking: Outsiders and Colin Wilson. Norse sagas. The Vulgar.
Gary Lachman discusses Colin Wilson's ideas about alienation with Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking: Oscar Nominations; T2 Trainspotting; Denial
Matthew Sweet and guests consider film making in 2017.
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Free Thinking: Neglected Women: Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Charlotte Robinson.
Author Tracy Chevalier and new academic research into women forgotten from history.
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Free Thinking: Narcissism
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our obsession with the self.
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Free Thinking: Medieval Manuscripts. Emma Donoghue.
Author of Room talks to Matthew Sweet about starvation and sainthood in her new novel
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Free Thinking: Martin Luther- fundamentalist reactionary or enlightened creator of our modern world
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ulinka Rublack and Peter Stanford discuss Martin Luther
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Free Thinking: Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf
Human Beings are part of Natural History discuss: via art, science and the Bloosmbury set
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Free Thinking: Light: Ann Wroe, Dan Flavin, Blackpool Illuminations, The Sun.
Ann Wroe joins Anne McElvoy for an exploration of light from Blackpool to the South Downs
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Free Thinking: Laurent Binet; the rise of blockchain tech.
Anne McElvoy talks to the French novelist about Roland Barthes.
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Free Thinking: Language and Belonging
Preti Taneja with Guy Gunaratne,Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri & Deena Mohamed
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Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Simon Heffer and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sussex University.
