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    Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie

    Matthew Sweet with an exploration of memory and Winston Graham's novel/Hitchcock's film

  2. Free Thinking: Landmark: Machiavelli's The Prince

    Sarah Dunant, Erica Benner, MP Gisela Stuart and Catherine Fletcher with Philip Dodd.

  3. Free Thinking: Landmark Jaws: 7 July 15

    Matthew Sweet on Jaws 40 years on with Gareth Fraser, Ian Hunter, Will Self and Fiona Tan.

  4. Free Thinking: La La Land and Hollywood - past and present

    Matthew Sweet and guests consider Hollywood's obsession with Hollywood.

  5. Free Thinking: Kevin Brownlow

    Kevin Brownlow talks to Matthew Sweet about documenting and restoring silent classics.

  6. Free Thinking: John Simpson on the death of the war correspondent.

    Philip Dodd and guests consider what we mean by 'news' in 2016.

  7. Free Thinking: Japanese History, Chinese Democarcy

    Zhang Weiwei, one of China's foremost public intellectuals, talks to Rana Mitter about...

  8. Free Thinking: India/Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid. Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House. Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman

    Anne McElvoy and guests look back at 1947, the end of empire and refugees travelling now.

  9. Free Thinking: Images of America

    As London hosts 2 exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream.

  10. Free Thinking: Hull: A trip down memory lane.

    Basil Kirchin's Hull, Richard Bean's Civil War play and the re-opened Ferens Art Gallery.

  11. Free Thinking: Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James

    Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to debate inheritance

  12. Free Thinking: Hay 2017: Women's Voices in the Classical World.

    Writers and historians join Catherine Fletcher for a discussion recorded at Hay.

  13. Free Thinking: Hands - The Anatomical Venus

    Matthew Sweet discuses hands with Darian Leader plus New Generation Thinker Seb Falk.

  14. Free Thinking: Food

    Matthew Sweet explores the joys of food

  15. Free Thinking: Fiona Shaw and Mark Ravenhill on Brecht, John Knox, 2017 New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul.

    Philip Dodd looks at speaking truth to power and the beliefs of John Knox and Galileo.

  16. Free Thinking: Enoch Powell; US Supreme Court; War & Art

    Birmingham Rep stages a play about Enoch Powell; John Keane & Jananne Al-Ani on war art.

  17. Free Thinking: Energy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson

    Photographer Edward Burtynsky, playwright Ella Hickson & experts on energy policy debate.

  18. Free Thinking: Ecstasy. Carpe Diem. 2017 New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes on medieval ecstasy.

    Jules Evans and Roman Krznaric discuss living in the moment and trances with Rana Mitter.

  19. Free Thinking: Churchill, Pocahontas and The Idiot

    Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.

  20. Free Thinking: Caravaggio; Bob Dylan; Dario Fo; Lenin's train journey.

    Caravaggio's art explored by Letizia Treves, Joe Moshenska and Anders Lustgarten.

  21. Free Thinking: Canada 150: Sydney Newman and British TV; Vahni Capildeo; Shubbak Festival 2017

    Matthew Sweet investigates the Canadian dynamo who transformed British TV drama

  22. Free Thinking: Canada 150: Identity Robbie Richardson, Alison MacLeod, Deborah Pearson + Rupi Kaur and Kevan Funk.

    New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott look at Canada in TV, poems + art

  23. Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.

    Are public enquiries good government? Plus Matthew Parris on scorn. Anne McElvoy presents

  24. Free Thinking: Breaking Free: Landmark - Paradise Lost

    John Carey, Islam Issa, Mandy Green and Joe Moshenska with Philip Dodd.

  25. Free Thinking: Breaking Free - Martin Luther鈥檚 Revolution. New Research into the Reformation

    Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter.

  26. Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette

    Laurence Scott examines the eminent Victorians Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough.

  27. Free Thinking: Artist Tom Phillips at 80; How do we save our plants?

    Artist Tom Phillips talks to Philip Dodd about his career as he marks his 80th birthday.

  28. Free Thinking: Artes Mundi Prize. Harriet Walter. Amitav Ghosh. Edmund Richardson

    Harriet Walter prepares to play Prospero, a review of the bi-ennial art prize in Cardiff.

  29. Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US

    Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi

  30. Free Thinking: Anger and friendships with Pankaj Mishra and Elif Shafak.

    Novelist Elif Shafak, US magazine editor Julius Krein, Douglas Murray and Pankaj Mishra.

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