Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - TS Eliot Prize
The Scottish poet Robert Crawford and fellow-TS Eliot biographer, Lyndall Gordon join...
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Free Thinking - TS Eliot poetry prize winner. Lisa Randall on dark matter.
Anne McElvoy talks to the winner of this year's TS Eliot poetry prize Sarah Howe.
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Free Thinking - Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton. Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat.
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Free Thinking - Tony Garnett
British TV and film producer Tony Garnett is in conversation with Matthew Sweet
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Free Thinking - Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem
Surgeon Henry Marsh and critic Susannah Clapp review the opening of Tom Stoppard's at...
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Free Thinking - Tom McCarthy
Anne McElvoy looks at what we mean by the idea of fairness. She also talks to novelist...
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Free Thinking - Tim Minchin, David Cronenberg
Canadian filmmaker and originator of the body horror genre, David Cronenberg covers as...
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Free Thinking - Tiananmen Square
Rana Mitter remembers what happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989 with people...
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Free Thinking - Thomas Ostermeier
As the Schaub眉hne Berlin's production of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' at...
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Free Thinking - Thom Gunn & Michael Cunningham
Samira Ahmed is joined by poets Paul Farley, Fiona Sampson and Clive Wilmer to discuss...
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Free Thinking - Theodore Zeldin, Mona Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy argues the Middle East Needs a Sexual...
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Free Thinking - The Winter's Tale Landmark
Samuel West, Carol Rutter, Michael Dobson and Matthew Sweet discuss The Winter's Tale.
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Free Thinking - The Way We Live Now
This evening Free Thinking is devoted to one of the pinnacles of Victorian England 鈥�...
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Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August and September on...
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Free Thinking - The Oscars
Matthew Sweet looks at the revival of Westerns and reports on the 2016 Oscar contenders
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Free Thinking - The notion of Jewish identity
Rana Mitter talks to three people who have been exploring their own relationship with...
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Free Thinking - The influence of the British Black Art movement.
Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy.
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Free Thinking - The Green Man. George Monbiot.
Rana Mitter considers the myth of the Green Man and our relationship with Nature.
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Free Thinking - The Digital Age & Boyhood
Richard Linklater filmed the actor who stars in Boyhood over 12 years from a 6 year to...
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Free Thinking - The Brits Who Built the Modern World
Philip Dodd chairs a discussion between Terry Farrell, Norman Foster, Nicholas Michael...
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Free Thinking - The Arab Spring, Sahar Assaf, Owen Hatherley, Social Media and Language
Anne McElvoy looks at what happened to the Arab Spring five years on plus Owen Hatherley.
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Free Thinking - Thames Estuary Festival, Jatinder Verma, Arne N忙ss
From Dickens, wartime defences to Doctor Who - Matthew Sweet explores the Thames Estuary.
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Free Thinking - Terrorism: Richard English, Baroness Warsi, 2017 New Generation Thinker Thomas Simpson.
Rana Mitter and guests look at fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.
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Free Thinking - TE Lawrence on stage. Jeremy Thorpe. Privacy.
Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble discuss dramas depicting TE Lawrence.
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Free Thinking - TE Lawrence on stage. Jeremy Thorpe. Privacy.
Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble discuss dramas depicting TE Lawrence.
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Free Thinking - Tales of Scotland: A Nation and its Literature: 25 June 15
Anne McElvoy discusses the ways Scottish writers negotiate what it means to be Scottish.
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Free Thinking - Tale of Genji. Algorithms.
Rana Mitter rereads The Tale of Genji sometimes called the world's first novel.
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Free Thinking - Taking the Long View with the Animal Kingdom
Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee on long-lived animal species and their survival strategies.
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Free Thinking - T S Eliot prize
Sinead Morrissey is the winner of this year's T S Eliot Prize for her anthology Parallax.
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Free Thinking - Syrian buildings. Judging Book Prizes. Georgian Literature
Anne McElvoy talks to architect Marwa Al-Sabouni about Syria's built environment.
