Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Free Thinking - Robert Musil
Joining Matthew Sweet for a Landmark discussion about Robert Musil's book, The Man its...
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Free Thinking - Rio, addiction, and saying the unsayable
Anne McElvoy looks ahead to the Rio Olympics discussing Brazilian culture.
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Free Thinking - Richard Mabey; Andrea Wulf on Humboldt; Stanley Nelson on The Black Panthers
Matthew Sweet with The Invention of Nature, The Cabaret of Plants, and The Black Panthers
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Free Thinking - Richard Hakluyt; Man Booker Prize; Chickens in the Anthropocene; Shirley Jackson.
Why chickens are man's best friend, Richard Hakluyt's voyages to America & parallels now
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Free Thinking - Revolutionary thinking: Paul Mason, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dacher Keltner.
Paul Mason and Bryan and Mary Talbot discuss Louise Michel with Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking - Revenge: My Cousin Rachel, Natalie Haynes, 2017 New Generation Thinker Islam Issa.
Matthew Sweet sees a film version of Daphne Du Maurier's novel, and revenge in Shakespeare
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Free Thinking - Representing Cities
Anne McElvoy looks at the benefits and challenges of cities pooling resources.
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Free Thinking - Religion Without Belief: Buddhist thinker Stephen Batchelor; Kader Abdolah; Linda Woodhead
Rana Mitter discusses a translation of the Qur'an & atheism in the UK & ancient Greece
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Free Thinking - Rauschenberg - performance, identity and the writings of Erving Goffman.
What price the self in the 21st century? with Dexter Dalwood, Susie Scott + Tom McCarthy
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Free Thinking - Radical Bookshops
Matthew Sweet talks to Philip Hensher, who's novel The Emperor Waltz draws together a...
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Free Thinking - Race in America
Joyce Carol Oates new novel The Sacrifice depicts an act of racial violence which a...
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Free Thinking - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 17 June 15
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence
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Free Thinking - Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium. Part of Gay Britannia.
Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy + the Caine Prize winner
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Free Thinking - Public and private art
In this programme about private and public art, Philip Dodd talks to Nicholas Penny,...
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Free Thinking - Protest
Philosopher Slavoj 沤i啪ek speaks to Philip Dodd about the re-emergence of a radical a...
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Free Thinking - Prisons & Anthropomorphism
Matthew Sweet interviews Karen Joy Fowler author of a novel which looks at the of a a...
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Free Thinking - Post Referendum reflections and New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane on citizenship.
The long view of the vote to leave the EU and New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane.
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Free Thinking - Populism. Romola Garai on Measure for Measure.
Philip Dodd presents a discussion about populism in politics and culture.
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Free Thinking - Politics and writing in Kenya
Billy Kahora, one of the writers nominated for this year's Caine Prize for African to...
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Free Thinking - Political Theatre
Philip Dodd, Roger Scruton and Janet Suzman look at theatre in South Africa - a year...
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Free Thinking - Political and Bardic Traditions in Wales: 23 June 15
Matthew Sweet examines Welsh politics and poetry with Gwyneth Lewis and Iain Sinclair.
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Free Thinking - Policing
Matthew Sweet explores the idea of the police with the playwright Roy Williams, the of...
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Free Thinking - PJ O'Rourke, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt
Presenter Rana Mitter, is joined on the 蜜芽传媒 stage at the Hay Festival by writer and PJ...
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Free Thinking - Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Neil Libbert. Carry On Films.
The Carry On film as social history and a photography show charting the 20th century.
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Free Thinking - Philosophy: Bryan Magee
Matthew Sweet considers the state of philosophy today
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Free Thinking - Philippa Gregory
Best-selling novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Rana Mitter about writing historical...
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Free Thinking - Peggy Seeger
Peggy Seeger talks to Philip Dodd about her life. Tomorrow she performs in World on 3.
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Free Thinking - Peggy Seeger
Philip Dodd talks to one of the icons of what used to be called the counter-culture,...
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Free Thinking - Paul Nash; George Szirtes; Hungary 1956 and now.
A graphic novel inspired by Paul Nash's dreams. Religion & revolution in Hungary debated
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Free Thinking - Paul Muldoon, Roy Foster. Rona Munro: 4 Feb15
Poet Paul Muldoon explores the history of Ireland in his new collection, One Thousand...
