Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking 鈥� Daniel Clowes; Alan Clarke's TV career; Ken Loach tribute to Barry Hines
Phil Davis and Clio Barnard discuss the career of director Alan Clarke.
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Free Thinking 鈥� Being Human: Lost and Found in the Archives
New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari & Laurence Scott report on the Being Human Festival
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Free Thinking -Teenage life: David and Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
Matthew Sweet, David & Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine, Iroise Dumontheil, Simon Stephens
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Free Thinking -Joseph Crawhall; Madame Bovary by Peepolykus; Rona Munro's The James plays; and Matthew Parris on biography.
Anne McElvoy profiles the painter Joseph Crawhall one of the lost masters of British art
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Free Thinking - Yael Farber & Liberalism
Yael Farber directs Richard Armitage in the Crucible at the Old Vic. She talks to Dodd...
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Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love
Alain de Botton, Tahmima Anam and AL Kennedy talk to Anne McElvoy about love in prose.
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Free Thinking - Writers Writing about Love
Anne McElvoy with novelists A L Kennedy, Tahmima Anam and Alain de Botton talking Love
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Free Thinking - Writers and Their Notebooks
As the British Library launches a website devoted to writers' notebooks and novelist a...
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Free Thinking - Worrying - Joseph Cornell - Spy Fiction - First film: 30 June 15
Matthew Sweet on worrying - Joseph Cornell - Spy Fiction and the First film.
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Free Thinking - Woods in War and Peace
From Paul Nash paintings of blasted tree stumps in the first world war to today's Paul...
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Free Thinking - Wonder Woman
American author Rebecca Solnit discusses the impact of "mansplaining" which she in her...
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Free Thinking - Witch finding. Marina Warner.
Matthew Sweet and guests including Marina Warner consider the season of the witch.
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Free Thinking - Wim Wenders on Peace
Film director Wim Wenders and Australian philosopher Mary Zournazi explain why they we...
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Free Thinking - William Morris
Jeremy Deller and Fiona McCarthy have each curated an exhibition looking at the art of...
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Free Thinking - Whose Book Is It Anyway?
Anne McElvoy discusses new research into how, when and why Britons got the reading habit.
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Free Thinking - What now for environmentalism? With Paul Kingsnorth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman
Writer Paul Kingsnorth talks about his changing attitude to the environmental movement.
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Free Thinking - Wellcome Book Prize, Civil Wars: Susan Buck-Morss and A.C. Grayling, Louisa Egbunike and Akachi Ezeigbo.
Anne McElvoy discusses nation states and war with A.C. Grayling and Susan Buck-Morss.
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Free Thinking - War: Tear Gas. New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri on the Spanish Civil War. Iraq.
Philip Dodd discusses war and modern memory.
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Free Thinking - Walter Benjamin; A cultural history of the body; Edvard Munch; Soviet Superwoman
Anne McElvoy evaluates the fiction of Walter Benjamin and the Soviet superwoman.
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Free Thinking - Voices in Our Ears: Colin Grant, Josie Rourke, Charles Fernyhough, Clare Walker Gore
Matthew Sweet looks at epilepsy considering Joan of Arc, Wilkie Collins & hearing voices
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Free Thinking - Virginia Woolf & Richard Flanagan
With Anne McElvoy. Curator Frances Spalding and Dr Alexandra Harris discuss what of of...
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Free Thinking - Violence in Culture
Philip Dodd considers violence in culture with crime writer Frances Fyfield, historian...
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Free Thinking - Vikings
Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition with the curator Gareth 3...
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Free Thinking - Victorian Bodies, Citizens of Everywhere
Rana Mitter talks Victorian bodies and looks at the Citizens of Everywhere arts project.
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Free Thinking - Velasquez; John Bratby; Pan Haggerty
Anne McElvoy talks to Laura Cumming about a C19 court case involving a Vel谩zquez portrait
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Free Thinking - Utopianism in Politics
Is politics about building a better world, or simply the art of the possible?
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Free Thinking - Universities: Therapy or Learning?
Philip Dodd debates "Universities - therapy or learning?". Dr Se谩n Williams on Nietzsche
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Free Thinking - Umberto Eco
Italian author Umberto Eco talks to Matthew Sweet about conspiracy theories and war.
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Free Thinking - Ukraine and Russia
Anne McElvoy on unrest in Ukraine and the state of dissent in Russia today with Boris...
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Free Thinking - TV Drama
TV dramatist Jed Mercurio, producer Caryn Mandabach and writer-director, Dominic talk...
