Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking Essay: The Human Copying Machine
New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt-Smith explores mirroring and a nineteenth-century...
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Free Thinking Essay: Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.
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Free Thinking Essay: Scold The Front Page
New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share...
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Free Thinking Essay: Russia's Sacred Ruins
Victoria Donovan on the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.
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Free Thinking Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time
Seb Falk on the 14th century monks who studied astronomy, a world of science & religion.
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Free Thinking Essay: Killing Time in Imperial Japan
Christopher Harding explores the Tokyo of a century ago when 'time' was hotly contested.
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Free Thinking Essay: Kids With Guns
Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.
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Free Thinking Essay: England's First European
John Gallagher marks the 400th anniversary of Fynes Moryson's great travel book.
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Free Thinking Essay: Educating Ida
Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Free Thinking Essay: Doing Nothing
Alastair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.
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Free Thinking Essay: Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?
Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village & community relations now
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Free Thinking Essay: Beards and Whiskers
Historian Alun Withey says beards can shed light on a whole range of things from to...
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Free Thinking Essay: Alexander the Great's Lost City
New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson with a story linking Egypt and Afghanistan.
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Free Thinking Essay: A War of Words
Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.
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Free Thinking Essay - Women's Theatre
Naomi Paxton from the University of Manchester explores the international movement for...
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Free Thinking Essay - The Spin Doctors
The Spin Doctors of 19th-Century America. Embracing the emerging sciences of the age,...
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Free Thinking Essay - Speech Before Words
Where did language come from? It's often been described as the fundamental barrier and...
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Free Thinking Essay - Shakespeare & India
Drawing on Shakespeare's plays and Indian translations of them from recent times - and...
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Free Thinking Essay - Disraeli the Romantic
Daisy Hay from Exeter University explores the way in which Disraeli invented the as a...
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Free Thinking Essay - Beastly Politics
Is man the only political beast? Can other animals be regarded as members of our with...
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Free Thinking Churchill & Englishness 21Jan15
Philip Dodd plus guests David Reynolds, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Heffer and David...
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Free Thinking at Uproot Festival
Author David Mark and poet Adelle Stripe join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Hull Truck.
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Free Thinking 2013 - Zamyatin's We
Yevgeny Zamyatin's experiences in the Tyne shipyards fed into his dystopian fable was...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Wombs on Legs?
From HG Wells and Margaret Atwood to Battlestar Galactica, science fiction texts and a...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?
Can a map reveal too much? How do they direct our thinking? From ancient atlases to to...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Whose Strife
Whose Strife Is It Anyway? Amit Chaudhuri, Gaiutra Bahadur and Aamer Ahmed Khan of the...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?
As we strive to protect our children鈥檚 imaginations from negative influences, are we...
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Free Thinking 2013 - What's Eating You?
What is the place of food and body image in contemporary culture? Lionel Shriver is of...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Twenty Minutes - An Interview with Neil Tennant
Neil Tennant, singer of pop duo Pet Shop Boys, grew up in the fishing port of North to...
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Free Thinking 2013 - Therapy Versus Prayer
Is the idea of counselling as non-judgmental listening flawed? New Generation Thinker...
